Professor Emeritus206-543-7883callen@uw.eduPDL A-408Office Hours: By AppointmentFields of Interest 20th Century 21st Century Affect Culture Gender Literature Sexuality Women Writers Background and ExperienceSummaryB.A., University of Washington, 1965M.A., Claremont Graduate School, 1967Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1972Areas of Specialization Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture; Women Writers; Theories of Affect; Theories of Gender and Sexuality Research Publications, Books 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). Publications, Edited Collections 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. University of Washington, 2017. Tasha Buttler. Learning the Language of Nostalgia in Modern and Contemporary Literature. Dissertation, University of Washington. 2012. Research Advised: Undergraduate Symposia Danielle Gintz, "Re-Membering Time: Reimagining Deleuzian Memory through Literature and Theoretical Physics," 2015. Research Advised: Undergraduate Honors Theses 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. 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. Courses Taught Winter 2018 ENGL 378 A: Special Topics in Theories/Methods Autumn 2017 ENGL 342 A: Contemporary Novel: Contemporary Fiction: Reading Emotion Spring 2017 ENGL 592 A: Graduate English Studies: Living a Professional Life Autumn 2016 ENGL 342 A: Contemporary Novel Spring 2016 ENGL 592 A: Graduate English Studies: Everything You Need to Know about our Profession and Related Resources. Spring 2015 ENGL 496 A: Major Conference For Honors Winter 2015 ENGL 599 A: Special Studies In English: Narratives of Affect/Affective Narratives: Recent Work on Emotion, Affect and Trauma (w/C. Lit 599) Autumn 2014 ENGL 494 A: Honors Seminar: Books of Memory and Forgetting Spring 2014 ENGL 309 A: Theories Of Reading Winter 2014 ENGL 599 A: Special Studies In English: Writing for Publication (w/C. Lit 599) Autumn 2013 ENGL 342 A: Contemporary Novel: Reading Emotion News Related News Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics Nov 30, 2018 Faculty and Staff Notes May 30, 2018 Emerging Directions and Continuing Traditions in the English Department May 6, 2015 Share: Print PDF
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