Tammy Clewell
Department of English
Professor
Campus:
Kent
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
- 鈥淏eyond Graphic Memoir: Visualizing Third-Generation German Cultural Identity in Nora Krug鈥檚 Belonging,鈥 American Imago 77.3 (2020): 459-496.
- 鈥淔ashioning Identities through Consumption: Clothes, Class, and Gender in the First World War Fictionalized Epistolary Column,鈥 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.
- 鈥淐avell and the Endless Mourning of Skepticism.鈥 Angelaki: A Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 9.3 (2005): 75-88.
- 鈥淢ourning Beyond Melancholia: Freud鈥檚 Psychoanalysis of Loss.鈥 Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 52.1 (2004): 43-67.
- 鈥淐onsolation Refused: Virginia Woolf, The Great War, and Modernist Mourning.鈥 Virginia Woolf . Modern Fiction Studies 50.1 (2004): 197-223.
- 鈥淔rom Destructive to Constructive Haunting in Toni Morrison鈥檚 Paradise.鈥 Ghostworks. Ed. Jodey Castricano. Spec. issue of West Coast Line: Writing Images Criticism 36.1 (2002): 130-142.
- 鈥淭he Shades of Modern Mourning in Three Colours Trilogy.鈥 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
Modernism
Postmodernism
Contemporary Critical Theory
Psychoanalysis
Comparative Science
Neuroscience
20th Century British Literature
Language or Literature
Literary Theory
Science Literature