Kristin Bluemel, PhD
Professor
Professor of English and Wayne D. McMurray-Helen Bennett Endowed Chair in the Humanities (2011-2014)
Graduate Faculty
PhD, Rutgers University
BA, Wesleyan University
Office: Wilson Annex, Room 509
Phone: 732-571-3622
Email: kbluemel@monmouth.edu
Spring 2013 Office Hours:
Spring 2013 Courses:
EN 417 - Writing WW 2 in Britain
EN 502 - Seminar: Literary Research
Regularly Taught Courses:
Novel in English
Critical Theory
Modernism in Britain
Classic and Golden Age Children’s Literature
Intermodernism
Writing World War II
Linguistics
Seminars on George Orwell and His Circle
General Education Literature
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Dr. Bluemel's recent publications include "Exemplary Intermodernsists: Stevie Smith, Inez Holden, Betty Miller and Naomi Mitchison" in The Palgrave History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945, vol. 8(Palgrave Macmillan 2013), "The Intimate Orwell: Women's Productions, Feminist Consumption" in Orwell Today (Ed. Richard Lance Keeble, Abramis Academic, 2012), and “Illustrating Mary Poppins: Visual Culture and the Middlebrow” in Middlebrow Literary Cultures: The Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960 (Ed. Mary Grover and Erica Brown, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Dr. Bluemel is the author of George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage (University of Georgia Press, 1997). She is editor of Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).
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Currently, Dr. Bluemel is working on a book project titled "Enchanted Wood: Four Women Wood Engravers and the Twentieth-Century Illustrated Book Trade." She edits the interdisciplinary scholarly journal The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, which Monmouth University began publishing in 2006.
Additional Information: SERVICE: Member of UQC (University Qualifications Committee) 2012-2015 English Graduate Program Committee Past chair of the General Education Oversight Committee (2008-2010) Peer faculty observer Member of the committee of the department Departmental Sabbaticals Committee
