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Tammy Clewell

Associate Professor

Florida State University, 2000

Professor Clewell joined the Department of English in 2000 and has since published essay on modernism, psychoanalysis, and film in journal including Modern Fiction Studies, Literature/Film Quarterly, Angelaki, College Literature, and The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her essay on Freud and mourning received the 2001 CORST Prize awarded by the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her book Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2009.

Professor Clewell is currently editing a collection entitled "Modernism and Nostalgia." She is also working on a book-length study of modernism, modernist legacies, cognitive science, and the invention of the human.  

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Books

  • Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism. Palgrave MacMillan, November 2009.

Articles

  • “Cavell and the Endless Mourning of Skepticism.” Angelaki: A Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 9.3 (2005): 75-88.
  • “Mourning Beyond Melancholia: Freud’s Psychoanalysis of Loss.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 52.1 (2004): 43-67.
  • “Consolation Refused: Virginia Woolf, The Great War, and Modernist Mourning.” Virginia Woolf . Modern Fiction Studies 50.1 (2004): 197-223.
  • “From Destructive to Constructive Haunting in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” Ghostworks. Ed. Jodey Castricano. Spec. issue of West Coast Line: Writing Images Criticism 36.1 (2002): 130-142.
  • “The Shades of Modern Mourning in Three Colours Trilogy.” Literature/Film Quarterly 28.3 (2000): 203-209.
Research Areas
  • Modernism
  • Critical Theory
  • Cognitive Science
  • The Brain versus the Mind
Affiliations

Modernist Studies Association
Modern Language Association

Tammy Clewell
OFFICE
Department of English
CONTACT INFO
Phone: 330-672-1779
tclewell@kent.edu
COURSES TEACHING
Spring 2013
  • HONR 30096 - 010 Individual Honors Work
  • ENG 34005 - 001 Brit / Irish Lit 1900 - Present
  • ENG 68096 - 003 Individual Investigation
  • ENG 68098 - 001 Research
  • ENG 78096 - 006 Individual Investigation
  • ENG 88098 - 001 Research Doctoral
  • ENG 89199 - 003 Dissertation I
  • ENG 89299 - 003 Dissertation Ii
Summer 2013
  • ENG 68098 - 030 Research
  • ENG 88098 - 030 Research Doctoral
  • ENG 89299 - 032 Dissertation Ii
Fall 2013
  • ENG 49091 - 001 Senior Seminar
  • ENG 89299 - 003 Dissertation Ii
EXPERTISE
  • Twentieth-century British Literature
  • Modernism
  • Postmodernism
  • Contemporary Critical Theory