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Assistant Professor of English Research and teaching interests
20th-century British literature; postcolonial literature and theory; performativity and the avant-garde; transnational modernisms; gender and sexuality studies
Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1999
M.A.,
New York University, 1991
B.B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1987
Publications
Books
Modernism, Race and Manifestos. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008
Co-ed. with Laura Doyle, Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity. Indiana Univ. Press, 2005
Essays
"Immigration and the Practice of Freedom: Nadine Gordimer's The Pick Up." Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, forthcoming
"Nancy Cunard and the Transnational Politics of Race" Modernism/Modernity 13.3 (Fall 2006): 507-30
"The Rhetoric of Violence: Avant-Garde Manifestos and the Myth of Racial Community." The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde. Ed. Gunther Martens and Sascha Bru. Rodolpi, 2006, 65-90
"Cabaret Modernism: Vorticism and Racial Spectacle." Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity. Ed. Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel. Indiana Univ. Press, 2005, 206-24
With Laura Doyle, "Geomodernisms: The Global Horizons of Modernism ." Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity. Ed. Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel. Indiana Univ. Press, 2005, 1-13
"Suffrage Burlesque: Modernist Performance in Elizabeth Robins' The Convert." Modern Fiction Studies 50.3 (Fall 2004): 570-94
"Self-Reinvention, Spiritual Uplift, and the Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X: An Interview with Michael Eric Dyson." Religion & Literature 27.1 (Spring 1995): 89-106. Rpt. as "Prophetic Black Islamic Ethics: Malcolm X, Spiritual Warfare, and Angry Black Love." Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture, and Religion, by Michael Eric Dyson. Basic Books, 2003, 341-59
"The 'Sweet Assassin' and the Performance Politics of SCUM Manifesto." The Queer Sixties. Ed. Patricia Juliana Smith. Routledge, 1999, 62-85
"Circuses and Spectacles: Public Culture in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood." Journal of Modern Literature 21.1 (Summer 1997): 5-24
"Giving Testimony: African-American Spirituality and Literature." Religion and Literature 27.1 (Spring 1995): 7-13
Editorial positions
American Editor, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary British and Postcolonial Literature, Literature Compass
Selected honors and awards
Visiting Scholar, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2005-2006
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Fall 2003
Current projects
The Practice of Freedom: Transnational Modernism and the Fictions of Uneven Development (book)
"Black Atlantic South Africa" (article)