Office: Keezell 208
Phone: 540-568-6391
Email:white2se@jmu.edu

Office Hours: Fall 2009 - 10:00-11:00 and MW 2:30-4:00

Courses: Fall 2009
GENG 236 Survey of English LIterature II, MWF 1:25-2:15
ENG 340 Modern British Novel, MWF11:15-12:05
ENG 410 Major Authors: Virginia Woolf, MWF5:00-6:15

Specialties:
Modern British and Irish Literature, Modernism, Irish Studies, Gender Studies

Education:
Ph.D. in English, University of Notre Dame, 2009
Dissertation: “Intimate Modernities: British and Irish Literature, 1922-1955”
School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Summer 2007
M.A. in English, Loyola Marymount University,2002
B.A  (Cum laude and Honors) in English, minor in Spanish, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:
Dissertation Year Fellowship, English Department, University of Notre Dame, 2008-2009
Zahm Research Travel Grant, Fall 2008
Adjunct Teaching Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2008
Fellowship to attend School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University Summer 2007
Summer Funding Fellowship, English, University of Notre Dame, 2005-2008
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Summer Stipend, 2004
Graduate Fellowship, English, University of Notre Dame, 2003-2009

Publications:

Articles
“‘O, despise not my youth!’: Sympathy, Senses, and an Intimate Aesthetics in James Joyce’s Ulysses.” Texas Studies in Language and Literature, forthcoming. Dec 2009.

“Warming the Other Side: Trevor, Cixous, and Facing a New Direction.” New Voices 5. ed. Ruth Connolly. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 224-231.

Reviews
Global Ireland, edited byOndřej Pilný and Clare Wallace. Irish Studies Review, forthcoming.

Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity, by Shane Weller. Irish Studies Review15.3 (2007): 398-399.

Scholarly Presentations:
“Intimate Aesthetics in Elizabeth Bowen’s Irish Novels,” Keynote Address, Reading Elizabeth Bowen, Symposium at the Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex, 2009 May.

“Intimate Aesthetics in Joyce’s Ulysses,” position paper for participation in Seminar “Joyce/Modernism/Modernity”, Modernist Studies Association Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, 2008 November

“Sympathy and the Senses: A Reading of Intimate Aesthetics in Joyce’s Ulysses,” Annual General Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Davenport, Iowa, 2008 April

“‘Silence Healed, But Kept A Scar Of Horror’: Modernist Stylistics In Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Long Beach, California, 2007 November

“Sympathy and the Senses: A Reading of Intimate Aesthetics in Joyce,” Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, Participant Colloquium, 2007 July

“James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Intimacy of Aesthetics,” International James Joyce Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2007 June

Panel Organizer for “A ‘Steady Erosion’: Degradation and Alienation in Irish Literature.” Paper  presented: “The Satisfied Split: Alienation in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy,” Annual General Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, The CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies, 2007 April

"Intimacy as Threat: Adultery and Kate O'Brien's The Ante-Room,” New England American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 2006 October

“‘I simply feel I’m more than just simply me’: Modernist Innovation and the Innovation of Modernism in Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love,” International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005 July

Panel Organizer for “Modernity and the Break: Ruptures and Boundaries in Irish Studies.” Paper presented: “The Fallacy of Rupture: Tracing National Identity in 16th-17thc Irish Language Poetry,” Annual General Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2005 April

“A New Play Space for Old Enemies: Modernism, the Generation of 1898 and Miguel de Unamuno’s Mist,” Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky, 2005 February

“Warming the Other Side: Trevor, Cixous, and Facing a New Direction,” New Voices in Irish Criticism Conference, University College Cork, 2003 February

“Marriage as Metaphor: Negotiating Power in Family and Nation in John McGahern’s Amongst Women,” Warren Susman Graduate History Conference, Rutgers University, 2002 April

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