Bio: Christy Burns received her degrees from Cornell University (B.A.) and Johns Hopkins Humanities Center (Ph.D). She has been teaching at William & Mary since 1993. Her courses address 20th-century literature, gender studies, critical theory, and film. Her publications include Gestural Politics: Stereotype and Parody in Joyce (2000) and numerous articles on modern and postmodern literature and film.
Within Modernism, she focuses on the works of James Joyce & Irish Studies, and Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury, working primarily on fiction and theories of the modern era. Her writings on postmodernism include essays on sexuality studies and political engagements in fiction and film. Authors addressed include Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Jeanette Winterson, Joan Didion, Michael Ondaatje, and Jim Crace.
In media studies, she has published on globalization and Irish film; on postmodernism and suture theory; and on Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia. Her second book project, Beyond Reason: Sensate Meaning in Modern to New Millennial Fiction, follows the changing influence of sensory experience on experimental fiction, moving from modernism, to postmodernism, to a new form of postmodern fiction that engages mourning, nostalgia, and a backward glance towards modernism. Currently, she is completing an essay on violence in 9-11 fiction.
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