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Mary Lou Emery

Modernist and Caribbean Studies

In her teaching and research, Mary Lou Emery explores intersections of British modernist, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures. Recently, she has published a book-length critical study, Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature, with Cambridge University Press (2007). Her work in these areas began with a book on the Dominican-born writer, Jean Rhys, titled Jean Rhys at “World's End”: Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile, and includes articles on other Caribbean writers (Wilson Harris, C.L.R. James, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica Kincaid) and British modernists (Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, May Sinclair). Currently she is writing about the global dimensions of Caribbean modernism and conducting research for a book-length study tentatively titled “Strange Furnishings: Global Homes and the Interior Arts of Modernism.”

She has received several teaching awards, including the Graduate Mentor Award (2007) and the President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence (2008). Her courses include: Transcultural Modernism, Modernist Women Writers, Caribbean Literature and Culture, Caribbean Crosscurrents of the 20th Century, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, England between the World Wars, and Modernist Arts in Britain.