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Literature and Culture 1914-1945

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Board Members:

Ann Rea, Co-President (2009): Ann Rea teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg. Her research interests include middlebrow fiction of the interwar period, children's literature, and contemporary women writers in Northern Ireland. She has published essays on women's middlebrow fiction, Marie Stopes, Anne Devlin, and Medbh McGuckian. She is currently editing, with Kate Macdonald, a book series on Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace for Pickering and Chatto.

Geneviève Brassard, Co-President (2010): Geneviève Brassard is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Portland, where she teaches Modern and Contemporary British, Irish, and Postcolonial literatures and serves as Director of the Integrated Writing Program. Her current research explores the intersection of female sexuality and urban spaces between the wars, and a portion of that research, on Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North, was recently published in Women: A Cultural Review. She has contributed book reviews on Modernism, women writers, and First World War literature to Modernism/Modernity, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, and the Yearbook of English Studies, among other journals.

Rebecca Cameron, Vice President (2010): Rebecca Cameron is an Associate Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, where she teaches modern British literature. Her research and teaching interests include modern drama, women's literary history, and gender studies. She has published several articles on British women playwrights in such venues as Modern Drama, Ibsen Studies, and Comparative Drama. She also participated in the creation of an extensive, collaboratively authored digital resource, Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (2006-).

Claire Buck, Membership Secretary (2009): Claire Buck is a Professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she teaches modern and contemporary British literature. She is author of H.D. and Freud: Bisexuality and a Feminine Discourse (1991) and editor of The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature (1992), as well as numerous articles on women's writing in the modernist period. She is currently writing a book on the relationship between travel writing and First World War writing.

Kristin Bluemel, Journal Editor (2004): Kristin Bluemel is Professor of English at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. She was a founding member of The Space Between Society, was Society co-president with Phyllis Lassner from its founding until 2006, and has been editing the Society's journal since 2004. She is author of George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London (2004) and Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage (1997). She is also the editor of Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Interwar and Wartime Britain (2009).

Robin Rissler, Treasurer (2005): Robin Rissler is completing her doctorate in the Department of English at Ohio State University.

Advisory Board:

Debra Rae Cohen, a former cultural journalist (who still writes about rock & roll), is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women's Great War Fiction (2002) and co-editor of the collection Broadcasting Modernism (2009); her next book project centers on Rebecca West as a limit case for modernist historiography. She has been a member of The Space Between Society since its inception and serves as book review editor of the society’s journal.

Patrick Deer is an Associate Professor of English at New York University. His teaching interests include 20th-century British literature, war culture, modernism, postcolonial literature and theory, Anglophone literature, cultural studies, the novel and film, critical theory, and gender studies. He is the author of Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature (Oxford University Press, 2009) and he has served as guest editor for two recent issues of Social Text: The Ends of War (2007) and Reflections on the Work of Edward Said (co-edited with Gyan Prakash and Ella Shohat, 2006).

Paula Derdiger is a doctoral candidate at McGill University. Her dissertation examines British reconstruction after World War II, charting the creation of the welfare state through literature, film, architecture, and town and country planning. Previous work focuses on the World War II fiction of writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, and Graham Greene. With Phyllis Lassner, she has co-authored a chapter on Elizabeth Bowen.

Erika Doss is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary teaching and research interests lie in the areas of modern and contemporary American art history and material/visual cultures. She is the author of Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism (1991), Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities (1995), Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999), Looking at Life Magazine (editor, 2001), and Twentieth-Century American Art (2002). She is currently writing two books, "Memorial Mania: Self, Nation, and the Culture of Commemoration in Contemporary America" and "Picturing Faith: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Issues of Religion."

Robin Feenstra has a Ph.D. from McGill University and teaches at Dawson College in Montreal.

Christina Hauck is an Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches modern British literature. She has published articles on Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Marie Stopes, Lord Alfred Douglas, and others, and is currently writing a book on sexual reproduction and modernist identity.

Allan Hepburn is an Associate Professor of English at McGill University. His publications include Intrigue: Espionage and Culture (2005) and Enchanted Objects: Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction (2010). He has edited two volumes of previously ungathered material by Elizabeth Bowen:The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008) and People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen (2008). A third volume is forthcoming: Listening In: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen (2010). He has also edited Troubled Legacies: Narrative and Inheritance (2007). He has published approximately thirty essays on such figures as James Joyce, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, and other modernist writers.

Phyllis Lassner, Honorary Member (2010): Phyllis Lassner served as President of the Space Between Society from 2004 to 2010. She teaches Gender Studies, Jewish Studies, and Writing at Northwestern University. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, as well as British Women Writers of World War II, and Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire. Her most recent book is Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust: Displaced Witnesses (2008). She has also published widely on interwar and wartime women writers.

Roger Rothman teaches Art History at Bucknell University, where he specializes in modern and contemporary art. He has published articles on Cubism, Dada, Surrealism in journals such as Modernism/Modernity, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Word & Image, and Konsthistorisk Tidskrift. He is currently completing a book on Salvador Dalí.

Michael Williamson is an Associate Professor of English at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.