~~JANINE M. UTELL, Ph.D.~~ Assistant Professor of English Widener University jmutell@mail.widener.edu |
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Biography ~ Everyone, real or imagined, deserves the open destiny of life. (Grace Paley)
Courses ~ To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. (Matthew Arnold)
Publications & Projects ~ I've got to find the right words on my own. (Tony Harrison)
Miscellany ~ These fragments I have shored against my ruins. (T. S. Eliot)
Where I'll Be This Year ~ Come, my friends,/'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Blogs/Journals/Resources ~ The people I love the best/jump into work head first... (Marge Piercy)
This is me.
I'm originally from New York, and currently live in Philadelphia. (I like to think of myself as having two cities.) I received a BA from Barnard College (1996, English/Creative Writing and French) and a PhD from the City University of New York (2003, English, dissertation: "Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction"). I'm interested in what happens when people get together to look at literature with sensitivity, seriousness, humanity, and humor. When we get to have that experience, we can learn something about ourselves and how we live. I believe the study of literature can help us understand – or at least ask questions about – our lives, our loves, and how we are human. Before coming to Widener in 2003, I taught at CUNY-LaGuardia CC, CUNY-Brooklyn College, Hofstra University, and Yeshiva University. In addition to covering 19th- and 20th-century British literature, I teach freshman composition and tutor in the Writing Center. My research interests connect closely to what I do in the classroom. While I focus primarily on early 20th-century British literature, specifically Modernism up to the Second World War, my larger questions regarding the representation of sex, love, intimacy, and the body – and their relationship to the complexities of public and private selves in modernity – reach across my syllabi and my scholarship. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ View a complete CV here. Download a printable copy here. Download a brief bio here.
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from Henry Moore's shelter drawings (The Henry Moore Foundation)
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~Courses Taught~
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, The Dancer (The Modernist Journals Project) 
“The Archivist, the Archaeologist, and the Amateur: Reading Joyce at the Rosenbach.” Journal of Modern Literature, 2008 . “Mourning and Meals in Woolf's The Waves .” College Literature, 2008 . “Are You Experienced?: Teaching and Reading Joy(ce) through the Body.” Feminist Teacher, 2007 “The Unburiable: Death Ritual in Osbert Sitwell's Poetry of the Great War.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945, 2006 “Leaving Her Father's House: Sackville-West's Saint Joan of Arc and Woolf's Three Guineas.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, 2006 “Unfacts and Evidencegivers: Rumor, Reputation, and History in Finnegans Wake.” James Joyce Quarterly, 2004 “The Loss of History: The Publishing of 30s Documentary, Word and Image.” The Thirties Now , Working Papers on the Web, 2004 “Virtue in Scraps, Mysterium in Fragments: Robert Graves, Hugh Kenner, and Ezra Pound.” Journal of Modern Literature, 2003 “A Fatal Place: The Ritual Encounter with Death in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield.” The CEA Critic, 2003
~Projects~
The Revolt of Love: Marriage, Adultery, and Desire in James Joyce: This project examines the representation of marital sex, particularly adultery, in Joyce's work. Using a methodology informed by postmodern ethics, this book-length study argues that Joyce uses the practice of sex within and without marriage to explore the possibility of an ethical love.
The Modernist Journals Project: I served as Editor for Volume 22 and contributed an essay on "The Woman Question."
The CEA Forum: As Associate Editor, I put together the online journal for the College English Association, a venue for work on the teaching and learning of English studies and writing.
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Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Rare Book Collection, University of North Texas)
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~Miscellany~
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Stevie Smith, Some Are More Human Than Others 
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Everyone should read Ulysses...and remember all the women who made it possible.
William Morris, Poppy (The William Morris Society)
~updated 11 August 2008~