 Associate Professor of EnglishOffice: Hellems 125 Telephone: 303-492-3399 E-mail: Jane.Garrity@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
20th-century British literature; modernism and empire; cultural studies; feminist theory; Anglo-American lesbian literature and theory
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, l994
M.A., Queen Mary College, University of London, 1985
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, l984
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, l981
Publications
Books
Ed. with Laura Doan, Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary. Manchester Univ. Press, 2003
Essays
With Laura Doan, “Modernism Queered.” A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, ed. David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar. Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 542-50
"Introduction" and “Mary Butts’s ‘Fanatical Pédérastie’: Queer Urban Life in 1920s London and Paris.” Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture, ed. Laura Doan and Jane Garrity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 1-16 and 233-251
“Olive Moore” and "Mary Butts." Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing1900-1950, ed. Faye Hammill, Esme Miskimmin, and Ashlie Sponenberg. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
"Virginia Woolf, Intellectual Harlotry, and 1920s British Vogue." Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Technology, Mass Culture, and the Arts. Ed. Pamela L. Caughie. Garland, 2000, 185-211
"Mediating the Taboo: The Straight Lesbian Gaze." Straight With a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality. Ed. Calvin Thomas. Univ. of Illinois Press, 2000, 191-231
"Selling Culture to the 'Civilized: Bloomsbury, British Vogue, and the Marketing of National Identity." Modernism/Modernity 6 (1999): 29-58
"Encoding 'Bi-location': Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Erotics of Dissimulation." Lesbian Erotics. Ed. Karla Jay. New York Univ. Press, l995, 241-68
"Nocturnal Transgressions in The House of Sleep: Anna Kavan's Maternal Registers." Modern Fiction Studies, 40 (1994): 253-57
Selected honors and awards
Kayden Book Prize for Step-Daughters of England , CU Boulder, 2007
Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, CU Boulder, 2001
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1997
Current projects
Material Modernism: Fashioning Modernity in England, 1910-1945 (book)
“Designs on Modernity: Women and the Omega Workshop” (article)
“‘Queens Survive’: Mary Butts, Fag Hag” (article)
“Queering The Good Soldier” (article)