Bridget Chalk

Courses Taught

English 110: College Writing

English 211: Written Communication

English 150: Roots of the Modern Age: Literature, Empire, Race

English 265: The Contemporary Global Novel

English 306: Introduction to Literary Study

English 310: British Literature II: The Romantics to the Present

English 346: Twentieth-Century Irish Literature

English 347: Literature and War

English 348: Postcolonial Literature

English 364: The Modern English Novel

English 399: Independent Study: James Joyce's Ulysses

Research & Scholarly Activities

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; women and gender studies.

Publications

Books

Novel Schooling: Education, Formation, and Reading in Fiction. Palgrave MacMillan, 2024.

Modernism and Mobility: The Passport and Cosmopolitan Experience. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.(Reviewed in Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of British Studies, Transfers, and JML: The Journal of Modern Literature)

Essays

"Novel Lessons in NW." Studies in the Novel 56.2 (2024)

"'In Order to Learn Not to Know'": D.H. Lawrence, Educational Critique, and The Rainbow." The D.H. Lawrence Review 45.1-2 (2023) 

"Jean Rhys and Contemporary African Fiction." MLA Options for Teaching Modernist Women's Writing. Ed. Janine Utell. Publications of the Modern Language Association, 2021.

"John Middleton Murry and Ethical (Anti)Modernism." Modernism/Modernity Print Plus 4.2 (2019). https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/ethical-anti-modernism

"The 1980s: Key Figures and Contexts." The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction,1980-the present. Ed. Peter Boxall. Cambridge UP, 2019.

"The Semi-Public Sphere, Maternity and Regression in Rhys and Mansfield." LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 28:3 (2017), 217-237.

"John Middleton Murry." A Critical Biographical Essay. British Writers Supplement XXIII. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson-Gale, 2016.

"Kay Boyle." A Critical Biographical Essay. American Writers Supplement XXIV. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson-Gale, 2013.

“'Sensible of Being Etrangers’: Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo.” Twentieth-Century Literature 55.3 (Fall 2009): 357-377.

“‘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.

Reviews and Miscellany

Review of Elizabeth Evans, Threshold Modernism. The Journal of the Society for the Space Between, 1914-1918. (2021)

Review of Allan Hepburn, ed., Around 1945: Literature, Citizenship, Rights. Journal of British Studies 56.1 (January 2017): 199-201.

Review of Peter Boxall, The Value of the Novel. Studies in the Novel 48.3 (Fall 2016): 384-85.

"Alain Locke." Encyclopedia Entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (2015).

Review of David Ellis, Death and the Author: How D.H. Lawrence Died, and was Remembered. Journal of British Studies 48.4 (October 2009): 1041-1042.