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Caroline C. Simpson

Associate Professor

Contact Information

csimpson@uw.edu

206-543-3072

PDL A-301

Fields of Interest

20th CenturyAutobiography, Biography, and Life WritingLiteraturePopular CultureWomen Writers

Biography

B.A., University of Texas, Austin, 1985

M.A., University of Houston, 1989

Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1994

Areas of Specialization

Modern Literature, Popular Culture, Women's Literature, Autobiography, and Twentieth-Century Literature

Research

Selected Research

• Caroline C Simpson. An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960. Duke University Press. Spring 2001.
• Caroline C Simpson. “Review of Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity and the Body.” Amerasia (Winter 2000).
• Caroline C Simpson. with Joycelyn Moody. “Chapter 20: Themes, Topics, Criticism.” American Literary Scholarship. Indiana University Press. (2000).

Research Advised: Undergraduate Honors Theses

• Shelby Morgan Handler. [Un]covering Mirrors and Healing Backwards: Reclaiming Histories and Reframing Queer Jewish Anti-Zionist Resistance. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013.

Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations

• Reddinger, Amy. Domestic Inversions, Domestic Interventions: Mapping the Postwar Formation of Home, School, and Family. 2007. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
• Reddinger, Amy. Domestic Inversions, Domestic Interventions: Mapping the Postwar Formation of Home, School, and Family, University of Washington, 2007.

Courses Taught

Spring 2015

• ENGL 251 A: Literature And American Political Culture
• ENGL 307 A: Cultural Studies

Autumn 2014

• ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice

Summer 2014 A-term

• ENGL 200 C: Reading Literary Forms
• ENGL 348 A: Studies In Popular Culture

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