Timothy Wientzen, Graduate Student
Office Phone: (913) 593-3189
Email Address: timothy.wientzen@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~tmw15
Specialties:
20th Century/Modernist Studies
British Literature
Education:
BA, Boston College, 2004
Research Categories: the novel, law and violence, aesthetics, habit and spontaneity, the avant garde
Current projects: Article project entitled "Authorizing Action on the Margins of Samuel Beckett’s Murphy"; Co-leading a seminar entitled "Modernism and the Fantastic" at the Modernist Studies Association conference, 11/08.
Research Description: My research focuses on the place of habit and spontaneity within British and Irish modernism, the relationship between the political contexts of late modernism, the political technologies of fascism/totalitarianism, and the aesthetics of repetition and automatism within late modernism.