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Rebecca Ann Walsh

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Assistant Professor

Interests

The courses I typically teach focus on the literatures of transatlantic/transnational modernism, American literature and culture from the perspective of Empire, and world literature.   My research focuses on these areas, with particular attention to diaspora studies, critical race theory, and gender studies and women's studies.  I value interdisciplinary and cultural studies approaches to literature and film, and draw in my teaching and research on cultural geography, postcolonial theory, and feminist theory.  

I am also the faculty sponsor for our department's Alpha Pi Theta chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English Honors society.  Above is a photo from our April, 2012 induction ceremony featuring many of the chapter's officers and new members.   Check out the new website that the officers designed for the chapter at sigmataudeltancsu.wordpress.com/

Projects

I have published essays on film, women's writing and feminist theory, American Studies, and modernist literature, and have edited a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies entitled Global Diasporas (2003), which includes work by Moustafa Bayoumi, Sara Casteel Phillips, Chris Chekuri, Himadeep Mupidi, Aihwa Ong, and Rhacel Parrenas. I am currently at work on a book-length manuscript entitled Modernism’s Geopoetics: Cultural Locations of the Near and Far.

I have also recently assumed the position of Co-Chair (with Celena Kusch)  of The H.D. International Society.

Publications

Selected publications include:

“Approaches to Teaching Race in H.D.'s Work,”  MLA Approaches to Teaching H.D.  Ed. Annette Debo and Lara Vetter (MLA, forthcoming 2011).

“Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Gender Studies and Sarah Orne Jewett.” Blackwell’s Companion to American Studies. Ed. John Carlos Rowe.  Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.  303-319.

With Lauren Coats, Matt Cohen, John Miles, and Kinohi Nishikawa.  “‘Those we don’t speak of’:  Indians in The Village.”  PMLA 123.2 (2008): 438-451.

 

Guest Editor, special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 5.1 (2003), on “Global Diasporas.” 

“Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialized Subject and the Limits of Locational Feminism,” Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood.  Ed. Mary Brewer.  Brighton, UK: SussexAcademic Press, 2002.  182-202.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Education

  • Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century Studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004