Laura Winkiel
- Professor
- Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
- Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Laura Winkiel’s research interests include modernism, Global Anglophone literature, postcolonial literature, and environmental theories and practices. She has written articles for Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, and Safundi, as well as for many essay collections. She is author of Modernism and the Middle Passage (Columbia UP, 2025) that argues for a media ecology approach to reading with the sea; Modernism: The Basics, a global approach to modernism (Routledge, 2017, 2nd edition forthcoming); Modernism, Race, and Manifestos (Cambridge, 2008) and co-editor of Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (Indiana, 2005). Her current book project is a media ecology of archives, provisionally titled Comparative Postcolonial Archives.
Areas of Specialty
- British Literature
- Environmental Literature
- Ethnic Literature, Literature of the Americas, Post Colonial Literature
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Literary Theory
- Modern and Contemporary Literature