2019-20 Courses

• ENGL 461 001-1/3.0 Topics in Modern/Contemporary British Literature I – Literature Between the Wars: Elegies and Memoirs of the First World War and the Spanish Civil War

Research Interests

• Literary modernism in Britain and the United States, especially the genres of elegy and memoir
• culture and politics in the 1930s
• the Spanish Civil War
• World War I
• the theory and practice of mourning, elegy, commemoration
• literature and the visual arts
• Imagism and Vorticism
• pragmatism

Recent Publications

“Orwell, Late Modernism, and the Spanish Civil War,” in A History of 1930s Literature, ed. Benjamin Kohlmann and Matthew Taunton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018.)

“Modernist Figures and the Pluralistic Universe,” in Understanding James, Understanding Modernism, ed. David Evans. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017. 193-214.

“Surveillance and the "Poetics of Silence": Late Modernist Imagism in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four," in Mark Levene, ed. Political Fiction. Salem Press, 2015. Pp. 132-152.

“ ‘There’ll be no more fishing this side the grave’: George Orwell’s Radical Nostalgia,“ Modernism and Nostalgia I, ed. Tammy Clewell (Palgrave, 2013) 149–165.

“ ‘Grieving in a New Way for New Losses’: British Elegies on the Spanish Civil War,” The Spanish Civil War: History, Memory, Representation, ed. Anindya Raychaudhuri (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013) 124–41.

Current Supervisions

John Bany-Klupsas, Adam Cotton, Irene Mangoutas (about students)