Speakers

Fall 2007 

JENNIFER WICKE is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Mistaken Identities: The Politics of Feminist Theory (1998). and Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading (1988). She has coedited a special edition of Boundary 2 on Feminism and Post-Modernism and written articles on women in the cinema, commerce and the Victorians, commerce and the modernists, and James Joyce. Her interests are 19th & 20th Century British & American Literature, Modernism, Critical Theory, Film, and the Media.
 

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JED ESTY is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He is the author of A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (2004) and co-editor of Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (2005).  He has published widely in the fields of twentieth-century British, Irish, and postcolonial literature; modernism; colonial and postcolonial studies; history and theory of the novel; and critical theory.  His current book project is Empire of Youth: the Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity,which identifies a previously unexplored connection between stylistic innovation and colonial history, while offering a comprehensive reinterpretation of the rise, peak, and decline of literary modernism in the British sphere.

CHRISTOPHER REED is professor of art at Lake Forest College. His areas of specialization and interest include art and design from 1875-present, the Bloomsbury group, lesbian/gay/feminist/queer studies, and East/West cultural exchange in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art.  He is the author of Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture, and Domesticity (Yale UP, 2004), which was short-listed for the 2005 Modernist Studies Association book prize, and the editor of A Roger Fry Reader (Chicago, 1996) and Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 1996).  Reed is now working on a book project about Japonisme and Occidentalism,the fashion for Japanese aesthetics in the West following the opening of Japan to trade with Europe in the 1860s and the reciprocal fascination of Japanese artists and writers for Western art and literature in the period from the 1860s to the 1960s.