Director,聽Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Professor, Department of English
Arts 140B
(514) 393-6918
I work in transatlantic modernist studies and twentieth-century studies, with a focus on early twentieth-century poetry and experimental fiction, often through the lenses of gender and feminist studies, textual scholarship, and literary and cultural history. Another area of inquiry is the history of the discipline 鈥� and big tent 鈥� that we still call 鈥淓nglish,鈥� with an eye toward how such practices as criticism and 鈥渃lose reading鈥� have been theorized in evolving ways as the field has developed. I am co-founder and director of the聽Poetry Matters聽initiative at McGill.
Recent work in feminist modernist studies has taken me to modernist classical reception鈥攅specially poet H.D.鈥檚 translations of Euripides; to pioneering film critic Iris Barry; to early twentieth-century critic Q.D. Leavis; and to early twentieth-century avant-garde artists Jessie Dismorr and Helen Saunders. I am author of聽The Geometry of Modernism聽(2005), author and editor of聽One Must Not Go Altogether with the Tide: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Stanley Nott聽(2011); coeditor (with J. McIntyre) of聽Rereading the New Criticism聽(2012), and coeditor (with L. Kozak) of聽The Classics in Modernist Translation聽(2019). Current work focuses on deep literacy and poetic attention, as well as on the female public intellectual in interwar Britain.