The literature on romanticism is larger than romanticism itself. - Isaiah Berlin
Research
Research and Teaching Interests:
Western Intellectual History
American Literature and Culture, 1770 - present Literary Theory, Performance Theory, Political Theory Theatre Studies and Theatre Arts Ecology and Literature Feminism and Gender Studies Writing Pedagogy and College Teaching |
The purpose of my research is not only to develop knowledge in specific fields but also to expose the practices that develop that knowledge. I work between disciplines, positioning knowledge always at intersections of methods. I have honed a skill exploring "big questions" in specific research projects. How do we apply spatial thinking to literary studies? How is learning performative, and how are we affected by different kinds of performances? What are the implicit ethics of university curricula? How does culture shape the sciences and how do the sciences shape our cultures? What larger histories underlie gender politics and its critiques? In our emerging global identities, how do we approach conflicting interpretations of history ? How do technologies structure this increasingly globalized world and how do we negotiate its ecologies and economics? Finally, how do the institutions of the university condition its practices, and how can students and faculty navigate and reform these practices?
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Doctoral Dissertation
Inheritors of Progresss: Glaspell, the University, and Liberal Culture in the United States
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Thesis for Master of Arts
Liberty, Narrativity, Epistemology.... Cetology?: A Phenomenological Study of Literature and Performance in Melville's Moby-Dick