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Mary Lou Emery

Modernist Studies, Caribbean
and Postcolonial Studies

In her teaching and research, Mary Lou Emery explores intersections of British modernist, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures. Most 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). Her next project, “Ideal Homes: Modernist Arts and Interiors,” will examine the obsession with houses—as literary trope and social program—during the modernist period.

Courses include: Caribbean Literature and Culture, Caribbean Crosscurrents of the 20th Century, Transcultural Modernism, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, and England between the World Wars.