四虎影院

Genevieve Abravanel Associate Professor of English

Education

Ph.D., Department of English, Duke University

B.A., Literature Program, Harvard University magna cum laude with Highest Honors in Literature

Research

Dr. Abravanel's research interests include twentieth-century British, American, and Caribbean literature, especially literary modernism. Her book, Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire, is forthcoming in the Modernist Literature & Culture Series from Oxford University Press.

Grants & Awards

American Association for University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship

Penn Humanities Forum Regional Faculty Fellowship

NEH Summer Stipend

William Preston Few Dissertation Fellowship, Duke University

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education

James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University

Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University

Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for senior thesis (on Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf), Harvard University

Publications

Book Publication: 

Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire, forthcoming, Modernist Literature & Culture Series, Oxford University Press.

Articles: 

鈥淛oyce鈥檚 American Encounters.鈥 Forthcoming in jml: Journal of Modern Literature.

鈥淏ritain鈥檚 Hollywood: Cinema and Close Up.鈥 Forthcoming in Modernist Cultures.

鈥淗ow to Have Race without a Body: The Mass-Reproduced Voice and Modern Identity in H.D.鈥檚 鈥楾wo Americans.鈥欌 Mosaic 42.2 (2009): 37-53.

Orlando鈥檚 Othello鈥 in Voyages Out, Voyages Home: Selected Papers from the Eleventh Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. Eds. Jane de Gay and Marion Dell. Forthcoming.

鈥淓nglish by Example: F.R. Leavis and the Americanization of Modern England.鈥 Modernism/Modernity, Fall 2008.

鈥淗ardy鈥檚 Transatlantic Wessex: Constructing the Local in The Mayor of Casterbridge.鈥 NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. Fall 2006.

鈥淗ommage 脿 la Francophonie guadeloup茅enne: Une entrevue avec Simone Schwarz-Bart,鈥 in Nouvelles 脡tudes Francophones, Fall 2006.

鈥淚ntertextual Identifications: Modigliani, Conrad, and Rhys鈥 After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie.鈥 Guest Ed. Mary Lou Emery. The Journal of Caribbean Literatures 3.3 (2003).

鈥淲oolf in Blackface鈥 in Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. Eds. Jessica Berman and Jane Goldman. Pace University Press, 2002.

鈥淢arilyn Hacker,鈥 entry in The Encyclopedia of America Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Fitzroy Dearborn Press, 2001.

鈥淒isciplining Culture,鈥 review of 鈥Culture鈥 and the Problem of the Discipline, Ed. John Carlos Rowe in Postmodern Culture, Vol 10, No. 2, Spring 2000.

Review of The New American Poets (ed. Michael Collier) and American Poetry: The Next Generation (ed. Constanzo and Daniels) in The Harvard Review, Fall 2000.

Review of One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine, trans. Norman Shapiro, in The Harvard Review, Fall 1999.

Course Information

FND 181, "Taste"

ENG 160, "Modern Drama"

ENG 169, "Caribbean Literature"

ENG 210, "Studies in 20th Century Literature: Modernism and Modernity"

ENG 277, "From Punk to Postmodern: Postwar British Literature"

ENG 467, "Virginia Woolf"