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Garrity, Jane

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  • My book, Fashioning Bloomsbury will be the first to examine how the Bloomsbury Group (considered the most prominent English artistic and intellectual cohort of the past two hundred years) echoed but also resisted the legacy of British imperialism through their engagement with material objects—namely fabric, clothing, texts, photographs, and artwork. In particular, I argue, through the clothing they wore, thought about, and produced, they expressed the period’s distinctive convergence of revolutionary artistic practices and the pervasiveness of imperialism as a lingering ideology. At the heart of this book is the pressing question that propels my research: How has Bloomsbury’s legacy of making and thinking about objects influenced or intersected with the wider contemporary context in which the language of imperial exceptionalism has fueled pro-Brexit rhetoric?

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  • twentieth-century British literature, modernism and empire, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, neo-materialism

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Teaching

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  • ENGL 3267 - Women Writers
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021
    This course explores how women write about a range of issues, some explicitly gendered, such as desire, sexuality, marriage, and family, and others perhaps less so, such as politics, justice, race, and class. We�ll consider how women think about their craft, how they approach questions of art and beauty, and whether we should consider writing by women a separate category. Students will examine a range of literature by women, aiming to be inclusive and intersectional. Same as WGST 3267.
  • ENGL 3830 - Topics in Advanced Writing and Research
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    This reading and writing-intensive course provides students with the resources necessary to conceive, propose, and execute their own research projects. This course will introduce students to a range of critical methods in the study of literature and culture, while offering a writing-intensive experience in a small seminar environment. Readings for the course may include novels, poems, films, or other media as well as relevant historical and critical commentary. The topic of the course will vary.
  • ENGL 3930 - Internship
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Summer 2020
    Provides academically supervised opportunity for upper-division students to work in public or private organizations on projects related to students' career goals and to relate classroom theory to practice. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department enforced prerequisite: 3.0 GPA and faculty supervision.
  • ENGL 4039 - Capstone in Literary Studies
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2020 / Summer 2021 / Summer 2023 / Spring 2024
    Topic varies by section, but all sections include small seminar discussions and focus on an individualized research project related to the topic. This course will draw on skills from previous courses in critical reading, thinking, and writing and will culminate in high-level discussions and in the final project. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
  • ENGL 4098 - Special Topics in the Novel After 1900
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    This is a special topics class where students will study particular historical trends, styles, or themes that shape the 20th- and/or the 21st-century novel. Topics will vary each semester. Check department description for details.
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