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Program: Literature Ph.D.
Began program in 1998
Area of Study: Victorian and Transnational Modernist Literature
Office 68 EPB
E-Mail: joyce-kelley@uiowa.edu
I left my hometown of Norman, Oklahoma in 1994 to attend Haverford College, a small liberal arts school near Philadelphia. After receiving my B.A. in English and music (musicology) at Haverford in 1998, I came to Iowa City to pursue my graduate studies in English. My primary area of study has been British literature, 1840-1940, though I have recently specialized in transnational women's fiction of the modernist period. I will complete my dissertation, Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body, in May of 2007 under the direction of Professor Mary Lou Emery. My ever-expanding interests also include children's literature, travel writing, the intersections between music and literature, and twentieth century American fiction. I also enjoy playing cello in the University Symphony.
'Nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring': Investigating the
Relationship Between Vita Sackville-West's Travel Narratives and Woolf's Writing.
Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International
Conference on Virginia Woolf. Clemson University Digital Press, Ed. Helen Southworth
and Elisa Sparks. Fall 2006.
Increasingly 'Imaginative Geographies': Excursions into Otherness, Fantasy,
and Modernism in Early Twentieth Century Women's Travel Writing. Travel and
the Body, a special issue of The Journal of Narrative
Theory, Ed. Marguerite
Helmers and Tilar J. Mazzeo. Vol. 35, no. 3 (Fall 2005).
Courses for English Majors:
Victorian Literature: Women and Girls in Victorian Poetry and Fiction (Spring
2007)
General Education Literature Courses:
The Interpretation of Literature (Fall 1999-Fall 2006)
Narrative Literature and Fictions: Tradition and Experiment in the 19th and
20th Century Novel (Fall 2002, Spring 2006)
Women and Literature (Fall 2001, Fall 2003, Fall 2004)
American Lives (Spring 2001)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
International Virginia Woolf Society (IVWS)
International Society for Travel Writing (ISTW)
Children s Literature Association (ChLA)
Modernist Studies Association (MSA)