My scholarly research focuses on the literary and cultural aftermath of World War One in Europe and the United States, and the work of writers including Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling, and Siegfried Sassoon. Rooted in cultural memory approaches, my PhD dissertation “Memorial Modernisms: Remembering the Dead in British Literature and Culture was supervised by Sarah Cole, Marianne Hirsch, and David Damrosch at Columbia University and awarded in May 2010. Full academic CV (PDF)
Publications
- “Writing a War Story: The Female Author and the Challenge of Witnessing.” Journal of the Short Story in English 58 (Spring 2012 Special Issue: The Short Stories of Edith Wharton) 109-124. (Available online December 2013)
- Review: Santanu Das, ed. Race, Empire, and First World War Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 VIII:1 (2012) 171-174 (PDF)
- “Battlefield Cemeteries, Pilgrimage, and Literature after the First World War: The Burial of the Dead.” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. 52:4 (2009) 387-416. (PDF)
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