Joanna Grant
Joanna Grant completed her doctorate at the University of Rochester in the spring of 2007. She has previously studied at Berry College in Rome, GA and Oxford University in Oxford, England, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She works in the area of Anglo-American modernism, primarily, with additional interests in Southern literature and culture, Arabic fiction in translation, and creative writing. She operates her own informal cat sanctuary out of her apartment in Auburn.
Representative Publications
- “Sexology Makes the Scene: Writing the Modernist Gay Bar.” Forthcoming in ELN 45.2, Fall/Winter 2007. “Queer Space” special issue edited by Jane Garrity.
- "Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Katherine Anne Porter Surveys (the End of the) World.” Forthcoming in Literature and Medicine.
- "Those Parts Peculiar to Her Organization": Pelvimetry, the Rise of the Medical Professions, and the Science of the Woman Question.” Forthcoming in Gynaecology and British Culture, 1500 - 2000. Ed. Andrew Mangham (University of Sheffield) and Greta Depledge (Birkbeck College, University of London).
- “They Came to Baghdad: Woolf and Sackville-West’s Levant.” Virginia Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: An Electronic and Print Publication. Ed. Elisa Sparks and Helen Southworth; Intro. Rishona Zimring and Urmila Seshagiri. Published online by an electronic publishing consortium including the Center for Virginia Woolf Studies at Cal. State Bakersfield, Crescent Street Press at Southern Connecticut State U, & Clemson U Digital P, 2006. Print version: Clemson U Digital P, 2006.
- “Erskine Caldwell, Hillbilly Celebrity: Retailing Rurality in the Modernist Public Sphere.” CrossRoads: An Annual of Southern Literature and Culture. Ed. Ted Olson. Macon, GA: Mercer UP, 2006.
- Martha Berry’s Library: A Descriptive Catalog of the Books Owned by Martha Berry and Her Family (with Iain Crawford, Ph.D.). Berry College, 1994.
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