Annje recently received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from CU Boulder. Her previous degrees include an MA in Comparative Literature and a BA in English and French. In 2007-08, she received a Thomas Edwin Devaney Dissertation Fellowship from the Center for the Humanities and the Arts.

Teaching Interests

Postmodern literature; narrative theory; 19th- and 20th-century American literature; the novel in the 20th century; literary criticism.




Current Courses


  HUMN 1010: Introduction to Humanities
  HUMN 3210: 20th-Century Narrative
  ENGL 3060: Modern and Contemporary Literature

Recent Articles

“Narrative Construction and the Formation of Identity in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.” (in progress)

“A Postmodern Fairy Tale: Theorizing Identity through Narrative in Robert Coover’s Pinocchio in Venice.” (under review)

Translation: “The End of Writing? Grammatology and Plasticity.” [“La fin de l’écriture? Grammatologie et plasticité.”] Written by Catherine Malabou. The Legacy of Jacques Derrida. Spec. issue of The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 12:4 (2007): 431-441.

Translation: “Again: ‘The Wounds of the Spirit Heal, and Leave No Scars Behind.’” Written by Catherine Malabou. Keynote address delivered by C. Malabou at “Following Derrida: Legacies,” a conference presented by Mosaic at the University of Manitoba, October 2006. Published in Following Derrida: Legacies. Spec. issue of Mosaic 40:2 (2007): 27-37.

Recent Conferences & Guest Lectures

 

“ E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime and the Simulacrum of History,” the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 2008.

“An Unheroic Choice: Love and Narrative in Angela Carter’s Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman.” Invited lecture. The Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series, Univ. of Colorado, April 2007.

"Genealogy of the Postmodern Self: Narrative and Rewriting in Agota Kristof's Trilogy," the International Conference on Narrative, the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Georgetown University, Washington DC, March 2007.

"Ambivalence and Power: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s film White," the third annual conference of the Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, October 6-7, 2006.

“Challenging the Order: Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book and the Tensions of Society,” the International Conference on Narrative, the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, April 2006.

“Ambiguity and Life Narrative: Reading Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family,” the annual meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Albuquerque, NM, February 2006.

“Connections of Reading and Writing: Reading Edmond Jabès’ Récit,” the International Conference on Narrative, the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, University of Vermont and Middlebury College, VT, April 2004.