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 Visiting Assistant Professor of University Writing Program and Women's Studies Program
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Education:
- PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison 2004
- MA University of Wisconsin-Madision 1994
- BA Kenyon College 1992
- Specialties:
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American Literature
20th Century/Modernist Studies
Poetry
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Postcolonial Literature
Critical Theory
- Research Interests: Transatlantic modernism and modernity; modernist and contemporary poetry and poetics; American Studies; spatial theory and cultural geography; diaspora studies; postcolonial theory and literature; and feminist theory and women?s writing.
Current projects:
Modernism?s Geopoetics: Global Locations of the Long Poem (book project in progress) Rebecca Walsh works in the fields of twentieth-century American Literature and Culture, Diaspora Studies, and Women's Literature. Her interdisciplinary approach to literature is informed by cultural geography, postcolonial theory, and feminist theory. She has recently edited a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies entitled Global Diasporas, which includes work by Moustafa Bayoumi, Aihwa Ong, and Rhacel Parrenas, among others. She has also published essays and reviews on women's writing, feminist theory, and poetry. She is currently at work on a book- length manuscript entiled Modernism?s Geopoetics: Global Locations of the Long Poem.
Representative Publications (More Publications)
- "Theorizing Postcolonial Women's Writing." (invited, forthcoming)
Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature (2008).
- "African-American and Arabic Identity in H.D.'s Fiction, Poetry, and Film." (accepted)
Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose (2008).
- with Lauren Coats, Matt Cohen, John Miles, Kinohi Nishikawa. "Those We Don't Speak of: Indians in The Village." (accepted, forthcoming)
PMLA (2008).
- "Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialized Subject and the Limits of Locational Feminism." Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood (2002): 182-202.
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