Interests

My primary research interest focuses on kinships of both method and concern between phenomenology―the work of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in particular―and modernist literature and art. Other interests include the interaction of contemporary philosophy with theology and the relationship between modernism and postcolonial writing. I recently co-edited Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond, an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring a variety of modernist issues gravitating around the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Gaston Bachelard, Michel Henry and Paul Ricoeur. I am currently working on a monograph examining the phenomenological dimension of the epiphany in modernist literature and art.

Research Supervision

I am particularly interested in supervising theses on modernist literature and poetry within various philosophical, theoretical and comparative frameworks, spanning from modernist philosophy, aesthetics and art to postmodern theory and visual culture.

Professional Activities

I am a member of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology and the Modern Language Association.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• EN308: Romanticism and Critical Theory

• EN331 Readings in the Twentieth Century

• EN640: Nineteenth Century Literature

• EN641 Modernism

Postgraduate:

• EN889: Literary Theory

• FR821: Paris and Modernism

• EN850 Centres and Edges: Modernist and Postcolonial Quest Literature

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Selected Publications

Work in Progress:

• Modernism and Phenomenology: Epiphanic Moments in Literature, Philosophy and Art  (contracted for publication by Palgrave Macmillan; forthcoming 2014).
• ‘"A Total Double Thing": A Re-evaluation of Phenomenology in Wallace Stevens’ in Textual Practice (online; forthcoming 2013), DOI number tbc.
• ‘A “Dance of Gestures”: Hyperdialectic in Gertrude Stein’s Compositions’ in The Aesthetics of Matter: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange, eds. David Ayers, Sascha Bru, Benedikt Hjartarson, Sarah Posman, Anne Reverseau(Berlin: De Gruyter/Mouton, forthcoming 2013), pp. tbc.

Books:

• Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond, co-edited with Carole Bourne-Taylor (Peter Lang, 2010).
  • Review of Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond (in Modern Fiction Studies).
  • Review of Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond (in Comparative Critical Studies).

Some Recent Chapters and Articles:

• ‘Introduction: Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond’, co-written with Carole Bourne-Taylor, in Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond, eds. Carole Bourne-Taylor and Ariane Mildenberg (Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 1-38.
• 'Openings: Epoché as Aesthetic Tool in Modernist Texts' in Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond, eds. Carole Bourne-Taylor and Ariane Mildenberg (Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 41-73.
• 'Seeing Fine Substances Strangely: Phenomenology in Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons' in Studia Phaenomenologica VIII (2008), 259-282.
• ‘Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: Thresholds of Perception in Joseph Cornell, John Ashbery and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’ in Joseph Cornell: Opening the Box, eds. Jason Edwards and Stephanie L.Taylor (Peter Lang, 2007), 137-56.
• ‘“Am I all of them? Am I one and distinct?”: Woolf’s ‘Gigantic Conversation’” in Etudes britanniques contemporaines, n° hors série, ed. C. Reynier, (Univ. Montpellier 3, automne 2004), 69-80.
• ‘Interrelation and Separation: Dialectical Tensions in Paul Cézanne’s The Large Bathers and Virginia Woolf’s The Waves’ in Across the Generations: Selected Papers from the Twelfth International Virginia Woolf Conference, eds. Merry Pawlowski and Eileen Barrett (CSU Bakersfield: Center for Virginia Woolf Studies, 2003), 277-286.

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