Professor Emerita
Fields of Interest
Biography
B.A., University of Washington, 1965
M.A., Claremont Graduate School, 1967
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1972
Areas of Specialization
Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture; Women Writers; Theories of Affect; Theories of Gender and Sexuality
Research
Selected Research
- Carolyn Allen. Gender, Politics and Islam. Ed. With Therese Saliba and Judith Howard, University of Chicago Press. SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. (2002).
- Carolyn Allen. Feminisms at a Millennium. Ed. With Judith Howard. University of Chicago Press. (2001).
- Carolyn Allen. Provoking Feminisms. Ed. With Judith Howard. University of Chicago Press. (2000).
- Carolyn Allen. Following Djuna: Women Lovers and the Erotics of Loss. Indiana University Press. (1996).
- Carolyn Allen. Editor. SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 1995-2000.
Research Advised
- Schaeffer, Tesla. Legible Grief : Discursive Liminality in Twentieth Century Literatures of Trauma. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Danielle Gintz, "Re-Membering Time: Reimagining Deleuzian Memory through Literature and Theoretical Physics," 2015.
- Aaron Douglas Huebner. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Maisie Alexandra Leese. "Female Re-Orientation Abroad: Considering the modern woman's potential to reclaim travel in the Middle East.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Michael Warren Bagby. "Rhetorical Devices as Social Action: Great Expectations as a Performative Text.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Kaija Catherine Perkiomaki. "Little Girls and Big Men: The Romance Narrative Explored Through the Sexual Coding of the Vampire Fantasy's Hero and Heroine.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- John "Jack" William Chelgren. "Qu’est-ce que c’est?': Affect, Subjectivity, and Neoliberalism in Talking Heads and John Ashbery.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Tristan Michael Riesen. "The 'Other' Victorians: Sexuality, Censorship, and Film Noir.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Stephen Joseph Connelly. "Progress, War, and the Eternal Return: Reflections on Time within the Fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien and E.R. Eddison.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Mackenzie Beth Sepler. "Viral, Visual, Virtual: Possibilities of Narrative in Snapchat.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Victoria Sinan Duan. "Form and Traumatic Remembrance in Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Percolation on Stream of Consciousness Models of Presenting Interior Monologues.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Elizabeth Li Tao. "Keeping up with the beat: The inclusion of slang terms through hip hop music into the American-English lexicon.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Kelsey Jessamine Hoag. "Hope for the American Poetry Teacher.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Rourke David van Zile. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Carlee Ann Horst. "Creating an Empowering Classroom Discourse on Gender through Great Expectations.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Steven Trey Wallace. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Buttler, Tasha Marie. Learning the Languages of Nostalgia in Modern and Contemporary Literature. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Karl, Alissa G. Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Cultures and Consumer Capitalism, 1915-1939. 2005. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
Affiliations
Home Department
Related News
Related News
- Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics (November 30, 2018)
- Faculty and Staff Notes (May 30, 2018)
- Emerging Directions and Continuing Traditions in the English Department (May 6, 2015)