Bridget Chalk, PHD

Education

PHD, Brandeis University
MA, Brandeis University
BA, Villanova University

Research

Twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature and culture; modernism; colonial and post-colonial studies; history and theory of the novel; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; literary and critical theory. I am currently working on a book project about interwar modernism and the passport system.

Publications & Professional Activities

• “‘I Am Not England’: Narrative and National Identity in Aaron’s Rod and Sea and Sardinia.” JML: The Journal of Modern Literature 31.4 (Summer 2008), 54-70.
• “‘Sensible of Being Etrangers’: Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo.” forthcoming in Twentieth Century Literature.
• Review of David Ellis’s Death and the Author: How D.H. Lawrence Died, and was Remembered. forthcoming in The Journal of British Studies 48.4 (October 2009).

Courses Taught/Teaching

ENGL 110      College Writing
ENGL 150      Roots: Literature
ENGL 211      Written Communication
ENGL 265      Contemporary World Fiction
ENGL 306      Introduction to Literary Study
ENGL 310      British Literature II: The Romantics through the 20th Century
ENGL 348      Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 364      The Modern English Novel
LLRN 204      Roots: Literature