Jed Esty

Associate Professor

Office: 312 EB
Office Phone: 333-0458
Office Hours: by appointment

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Courses

English 543:  Sex, Gender, and Colonialism in Modernist Fiction
English 543:  Modernism and the Fiction of Development
English 543:  Contemporary British Literature/Disuniting Kingdom
English 461:  Literature and Culture of Youth in 20th-c. Britain
English 455:  Major Authors:  Eliot, Pound, Auden
English 443:  British Literature After 1930
English 442:  British Literature 1900-1930
English 396:  Hon. Sem. I: Modernism and Primitivism
English 396:  Hon. Sem. I: The Bildungsroman in the 20th Century
English 398: Hon. Sem. III: Under Eastern Eyes: Conrad & Nabokov
English 247:  The British Novel
English 245:  The Short Story
English 213:  The Culture of Modernism

Areas of Interest

Twentieth-century British, Irish, and Postcolonial literature; Modernism; Colonial and Postcolonial Studies; History and Theory of the Novel; Critical Theory

Work in Progress

Tropics of Youth: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

"The Colonial Bildungsroman; or, Olive Schreiner and Goethe's Ghost."  Forthcoming in Victorian Studies 49.3 (Spring 2007).

"Virginia Woolf's Colony and the Adolescence of Modernist Fiction," in Modernism and  Colonialism:  British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939, eds. Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses. (Duke University Press, 2007).   

Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2005).  Co-editor, with Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Antoinette Burton, and Matti Bunzl.

A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton University Press, 2004).