Kimberly Engdahl Coates, Assistant Professor

kimbec@bgnet.bgsu.edu


412 East Hall
419-372-9189

Degrees and Institutions:

Ph.D. English, University of Utah, 2004
M.A.  English, University of Utah, 1992
B.A.   English/Psychology, Michigan State University, 1985

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate:
ENG 201 Intro to Literary Genres
ENG 265 British Literature 1700-1945
ENG 302 Intro to LIterary Theory and Criticism
ENG 419 British Modernism
ENG 433 American Modernism

Graduate:
ENG 580 "Eros and Mourning: British Modernism"
ENG 675 "Lost Generation(s): American and British Literature of the Entre Guerre"
ENG 675 "British Literature and the Rise of Facism"
Women's Studies 620 Contemporary Feminist Theories
ENG 6800  Feminism and War

Area: Twentieth-Century British and American Literature, Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Research Interests: Transatlantic Modernist literature and culture, gender studies, feminism(s), psychoanalysis, and trauma theory.

Recent Publications:

"Photographing Violence: Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas and Contemporary Feminist Responses to Images of War."  Woolf, Women, and War: Contemporary Discussions on Gender and Virginia Woolf's War Writing.  Ed. Jane Wood. Edwin Mellon Press, forthcoming, December, 2009.

"Freud and the Aesthetic Subject: Rereading Leonardo," currently under review.

"Eros in the Sickroom: Phosphorescent Form and Aesthetic Ecstasy in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers," Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol 38:2 Summer 2008.

"Regarding Violence: Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas and Contemporary Feminist Responses to War," Selected Papers from the 17th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference: Art, Education, and Internationalism.  Clemson University Press, 2008.

"Exposing the ‘Nerves of Language’:  Virginia Woolf, Charles Mauron, and the Affinity Between Aesthetics and Illness.”  Literature and Medicine Vol 21:2 (Fall 2002): 242-263. 

“Dorothy Richardson,” “Muriel Spark,” “Sylvia Townsend Warner,” “Mary Webb,” Feminist Writers.  Ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton.  New York:  St. James Press, 1996.

Review of Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic by Tobin Siebers.   Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49 (Fall 1995): 209-211.

Current Projects:

"Sick with the Color of Mother: Aesthetic Transfusions in H.D.' HERmione." (tentative title)

"Fancy (and) Symptoms: Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out and The Art of Being Ill." (tentative title)

"Queering London: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Perception."

 

Professional Memberships:

Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
International Virginia Woolf Society