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    Tammy Clewell

    Tammy Clewell

    Department of English
    Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
    Contact Information
    Email:
    tclewell@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-1779

    Biography

    Tammy Clewell teaches courses in twentieth-century British and Irish literature, critical theory, and contemporary prose and graphic memoir.  She is the author of Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and editor of Modernism and Nostalgia: Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).  Her articles that have appeared in such journals as PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

    Books
    • Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism. Palgrave MacMillan, November 2009.
    Edited Collections
    • Modernism and Nostalgia: Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics, Palgrave MacMillan, July 2013.
    Articles
    • “Beyond Graphic Memoir: Visualizing Third-Generation German Cultural Identity in Nora Krug’s Belonging,” American Imago 77.3 (2020): 459-496.
    • “Fashioning Identities through Consumption: Clothes, Class, and Gender in the First World War Fictionalized Epistolary Column,” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 10.1-2 (2020): 1-26.
    • "Beyond Psychoanalysis: Resistance and Reparative Reading in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?," PMLA, 132.1 (2017): 51-70.
    • "The Making of a New Virginia Woolf Icon" (Review-essay). College Literature 32.3 (2005): 172-181.
    • “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

    Education

    Florida State University, 2000

    Expertise

    Twentieth-century British Literature
    Modernism
    Postmodernism
    Contemporary Critical Theory
    Psychoanalysis
    Comparative Science
    Neuroscience
    20th Century British Literature
    Language or Literature
    Literary Theory
    Science Literature

    Affiliations

  • Modernist Studies Association
  • Modern Language Association
  • Documents

    PDF icon Clewell Vita.docx
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