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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. New York: Routledge, 2008.
"Modernism's Risky Business: Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach and American
Consumer Capitalism." American Literature 80 (March 2008): 83-109.
"Goldfinger's Gold Standard: Negotiating the Economic Nation in Mid-Century
Britain." The International Journal of Cultural Studies 11 (June 2008):
177-192.
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. Studies in the Novel 39 (Winter
2007): 498-501.
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:
- Literature and Culture
- Critical Approaches to Literature
- Contemporary British Writers
- Modern British Literature
- British Literature II
- Introduction to Literary Analysis
- College Composition
