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Department of English
Dr. Alissa G. Karl
Department of English
Hartwell Hall 205A
Phone: (585) 395-2342
E-mail: akarl@brockport.edu
Education:
- Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 2005
- M.A., English, University of Manchester (UK), 1999
- B.A., English, George Washington University, 1998
Research and Teaching Specializations:
- Twentieth century British and transatlantic literature and culture
- Transatlantic Modernisms
- Literature and Economics
- Consumer culture
- Contemporary British fiction
- Literature and the nation
Publications:
Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein and Nella Larsen. Forthcoming from Routledge, Fall 2008.
“Modernism’s Risky Business: Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach and American Consumer Capitalism.” Forthcoming in American Literature, Spring 2008.
“Goldfinger’s Gold Standard: Negotiating the Economic Nation in Mid-Century Britain.” Forthcoming in the International Journal of Cultural Studies.
“Interwar Fiction and the Nation.” Review of Ronald Berman’s Modernity and Progress: Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Orwell, and Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt’s Narrative Settlements: Geographies of British Women’s Fiction Between the Wars. Forthcoming in Studies in the Novel.
Fellowships and Awards:
Research Fellowship, Simpson Center for the Humanities Society of Scholars,
University of Washington (2004-2005)
Fellow, “Connecting with the Community” Public Humanities Institute, University of Washington (2004)
Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English, University of Washington (2004)
Frederick W. Ingham Endowed Fellowship in English, University of Washington (1999-2000)
Courses taught at SUNY Brockport:
- Contemporary British Writers
- Modern British Literature
- British Literature II
- Introduction to Literary Analysis
- College Composition
