Modernist
One of the major strengths of the English Department is the number of its distinguished faculty who study, teach, and write on modernism. We have a dedicated and supportive community of professors, instructors, and graduate students who work together. William Cohen is a connoisseur of Oscar Wilde, John Auchard has done considerable work with Henry James and Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux has written on Yeats and the visual arts, on modern poetry and painting, and on digital scholarship. Richard Cross has published James Joyce, Malcolm Lowry, D. M. Thomas, and other modern writers, and Merle Collins writes on and edits Caribbean and contemporary Black British authors. Linda Kauffman and Brian Richardson have written widely on experimental literature and narrative theory; Richardson has recently published articles on Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov, and Beckett.
Several other professors' work centers on or engages with modernism. Zita Nuñes writes on the intersections of African American and Afro-Brazilian modernisms, Peter Mallios has published on Conrad, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Arnold edited and introduced Mina Loy's novel, Insel, Sheila Jelen is an expert on Hebrew and Yiddish modernism, Joshua Weiner has published on several of modernist poets. Members of our faculty also regularly work with professors of modern literature and culture in other departments including Theatre, Comparative Literature, Art History, Women's Studies, and American Studies and our own distinguished creative writing professors. Christina Walter has just been hired to further bolster our modernist faculty; she has published articles on HD and Mina Loy and is also working on Walter Pater, Michael Field, D. H. Lawrence, and T.S Eliot.
Our Faculty
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Elizabeth Arnold Associate Professor Acting Director, English Honors |
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John Auchard Professor |
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Jackson Bryer Emeritus Professor Distinguished Scholar-Teacher |
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Charles Caramello Professor Dean, Graduate School |
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Richard Cross Emeritus Professor |
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Sheila Jelen Associate Professor |
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Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux Professor Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Arts and Humanities |
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Peter Mallios Associate Professor |
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Brian Richardson Professor |
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Martha Nell Smith Professor Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, ADVANCE Professor |
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Jesse Oak Taylor Visiting Assistant Professor American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow |
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Christina Walter Assistant Professor |
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Joshua Weiner Associate Professor Associate Director, Program in Creative Writing |
Faculty Bookshelf
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Professor Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts Cambridge University Press, 2011 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity Stanford University Press, 2010 |
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Associate Professor Elizabeth Arnold Effacement Flood Editions, 2010 |
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Associate Professor Joshua Weiner Editor, At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn University of Chicago Press, 2009 |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, Emily Dickinson's Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry The University of Virginia Rotunda Press, 2008 |
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Professor Brian Richardson Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices University of Nebraska Press, 2008 |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, with Mary Loeffelholz, A Companion to Emily Dickinson Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 |
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Associate Professor Elizabeth Arnold Civilization Flood Editions, 2006 |
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Professor Brian Richardson Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction Ohio State University Press, 2006 |
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Associate Professor Joshua Weiner From the Book of Giants 2006 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Editor, The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 2004 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Co-editor, with Carola Kaplan and Andrea White, Conrad in the Twenty-first Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives Routledge, 2004 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Editor, Victory, by Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 2003 |
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Professor Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux Yeats and the Visual Arts Syracuse University Press, 2003 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Editor, Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River, by Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 2002 |
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Professor Brian Richardson Editor, Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames Ohio State University Press, 2002 |
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Professor Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux Co-editor, with Neil Fraistat, Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print University of Wisconsin Press, 2002 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Editor, Under Western Eyes Modern Library Classics, 2001 |
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Associate Professor Joshua Weiner The World's Room University of Chicago Press, 2001 |
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Associate Professor Elizabeth Arnold The Reef University of Chicago Press, 1999 |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, with Ellen Louise Hart, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson Paris Press, 1998 |
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Professor Brian Richardson Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative University of Delaware Press, 1997 |
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Professor Charles Caramello Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act University of North Carolina Press, 1996 |
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News
Resources
This list of useful resources for Modernists was assembled by Professor Brian Richardson and PhD Candidate Jennifer Wellman.
- Resources on Modernism -- a collection of links to leading author-centric websites and Modernist societies.
- "Remapping the Present: The Master Narrative of Modern Literary History and the Lost Forms of Twentieth-Century Fiction" -- Brian Richardson's essay defining Modernism, Twentieth Century Literature 43.3 (Fall 1997): 291-309.
- Sample Cover Letter for Journal Submission
Sample Exam Lists
