Professor Emerita
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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: Graduate Dissertations
- Schaeffer, Tesla. Legible Grief : Discursive Liminality in Twentieth Century Literatures of Trauma. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- 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.
Research Advised: Undergraduate Symposia
Research Advised: Undergraduate Honors Theses
- Kelsey Jessamine Hoag. "Hope for the American Poetry Teacher.". 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tristan Michael Riesen. "The 'Other' Victorians: Sexuality, Censorship, and Film Noir.". Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2015.
- Mackenzie Beth Sepler. "Viral, Visual, Virtual: Possibilities of Narrative in Snapchat.". 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rourke David van Zile. 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.
- Steven Trey Wallace. 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.
Courses Taught
Winter 2018
Autumn 2016
Spring 2015
Spring 2014
Autumn 2013
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