Pearl James
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Yale University
Email: pearl.james@uky.edu
Phone: 257-6978
Office: 1317 Patterson Office Tower
Research
Areas of Specialty:
- 20th century American Literature
- World War I
- Film
- American Modernism
- Propaganda Posters
- Gender Studies
Selected Publications
- "History and Masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise." Modern Fiction Studies 51.1 (2005): 1-33.
- "’The Enid Problem’: Dangerous Modernity in One of Ours," in Cather Studies, vol. 6: History, Memory, and War, ed. by Steven Trout (Lincoln: U Nebraska Press, 2006): 92-128.
- "The Failure to Mourn in Faulkner’s Sartoris," in Modernism and Mourning, ed. Patricia Rae (Bucknell University Press, 2007): 168-184.
- "The Great Gatsby and the Context of World War I," forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching The Great Gatsby, ed. Jackson Bryer and Nancy VanArsdale (NY: MLA, 2008).
Forthcoming:
- Picture This! Reading World War I Posters and Visual Culture, ed. Pearl James, University of Nebraska Press, 2009.