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Rebecca Walsh, Visiting Assistant Professor, English

Contact Info:

Office Location:	405 Old Chemistry
Office Phone:	668-1616
Email Address:

Office Hours:

Wednesdays and Thursdays 2:30 to 3:30, and by appt.

Education:

PhD	University of Wisconsin-Madison	2004
MA	University of Wisconsin-Madision	1994
BA	Kenyon College	1992

Specialties:

American Literature
Modern to Contemporary
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), as well as articles on Jamaica Kincaid, Henry James, and Sarah Orne Jewett.

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.

Areas of Interest:

Transatlantic modernism
American literature
Critical U.S. Studies
Feminist theory
The Harlem Renaissance
Diasporic literature and theory
Cultural studies

Keywords:

modernism • space • place • poetry • feminist theory • geopolitics • diaspora

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Theorizing Postcolonial Women's Writing, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature (2008) ((invited, forthcoming).)
2. African-American and Arabic Identity in H.D.'s Fiction, Poetry, and Film, in Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose (2008), Modern Language Association ((accepted).)
3. with Lauren Coats, Matt Cohen, John Miles, Kinohi Nishikawa, Those We Don't Speak of: Indians in The Village, PMLA (2008) ((accepted, forthcoming).)
4. Global Diasporas, Special Issue, edited by Rebecca Walsh, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies., vol. 5.1 (2003) (Ed. and Intro. R. Walsh.) [title~content=g713769172~db=all]
5. Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialized Subject and the Limits of Locational Feminism, edited by Mary Brewer, Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood (2002), pp. 182-202, Sussex Academic Press