English Department Faculty

Karen A. Hoffmann
Associate professor of English
 
Education
Lawrence University, B.A.
Indiana University, M.A., Ph.D.

Interests
British and American modernist fiction; Gender and modernism; Harlem Renaissance; African American literature

Advanced courses
Modernist British Fiction
Modernist American Fiction
Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Gender and Modernist Literature

Publications
"'Am I No Better Than a Eunuch?': Narrating Masculinity and Empire in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier." Journal of Modern Literature 27.3 (Winter 2004): 30-46.

"Identity Crossings and the Autobiographical Act in Willa Cather's My Ántonia." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 58.4 (Winter 2002): 25-50.

Work in progress
My current research focuses on the ways in which literary experimentations with genre in the Harlem Renaissance explore concepts of race.