Skip to main content
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
Kent State University logo
  • Apply
  • Visit
  • Give Now
  • FlashLine Login
  • Calendars
  • Phone Directory
  • Maps & Directions
  • Search
University Outreach and Engagement
Menu Search
  • About Us
    Close
    • About Us Overview
    • Meet Our Staff
  • Access & Opportunity Programs
    Close
    • Access & Opportunity Programs Overview
    • Prison Reentry Program
    • Liberation Learners
    • TRIO Educational Opportunity Centers
    • TRIO Upward Bound Programs
  • Foster Care Initiatives
    Close
    • Foster Care Initiatives Overview
    • First-Star Kent State Academy
    • Purple Umbrella
  • Community Relations and Partnerships
    Close
    • Community Relations and Partnerships Overview
    • Town & Gown Partnerships
    • College and Career Academies
    • Jumpstart Summer Enrichment Program
    • LeBron James Family Foundation
  • College Credit Plus
  • FlashLine Login
  • Calendars
  • Phone Directory
  • Maps & Directions
  • Search
  • Apply
  • Visit
  • Give Now
Live Chat
Tammy Clewell

Tammy Clewell, Ph.D.

Department of English
Professor
Campus:
Kent
Office Location:
209E Satterfield Hall
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

Affiliations

  • Modernist Studies Association
  • Modern Language Association

Documents

PDF icon Clewell Vita.docx
University Outreach and Engagement

Street Address

PO Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242


Mailing Address

800 E. Summit St.
Kent, OH 44242

Contact Us

330-672-3330 uoe@kent.edu
Contact Us
  • 330-672-3000
  • info@kent.edu

  • facebook
  • instagram
  • youtube
  • linkedin
  • TikTok
  • X
  • snapchat
  • ...
Information
  • Accessibility
  • Annual Security Reports
  • For Our Alumni
  • For the Media
  • Health Services
  • Jobs & Employment
  • Privacy Statement
  • HEERF CARES/CRRSAA/ARP Act Reporting and Disclosure
  • Website Feedback
Kent State University logo
© 2025 Kent State University All rights reserved.