Laura Winkiel
Associate Professor • Associate Chair for Graduate Studies • Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and in the Department of Ethnic Studies

Office: Muenzinger D148E

Laura Winkiel’sÌýresearch interests include modernism, feminism, postcolonial literature, and environmental theories and practices. She has written articles forÌýModernism/Modernity,ÌýModern Fiction Studies,ÌýJournal of Modern Literature,ÌýandÌýSafundi, as well as for many essay collections. She is author of Modernism: The Basics, a global approach to modernism (Routledge, 2017), Modernism, Race, and Manifestos (Cambridge, 2008) and co-editor ofÌýGeomodernisms: Race, Modernism, ModernityÌý(Indiana, 2005). She has served as American editor of Twentieth Century and ContemporaryÌýBritish and Postcolonial Literature forÌýLiterature CompassÌýand is currently senior editor ofÌýEnglish Language Notes.ÌýShe is currently working on a book calledÌýModernism and the Middle Passage. She is President of the Modernist Studies Association in 2017-18.

Areas of Specialty

  • British Literature
  • Environmental Literature
  • Ethnic Literature, Literature of the Americas, Post Colonial Literature
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Literary Theory
  • Modern and Contemporary Literature