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Laurel Harris’s research interests include Anglophone and British modernism, the relationship between fiction and film in the early twentieth century, sound technologies and literary modernism, and modernist women writers. She is co-editor of Communal Modernisms: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Classroom (Palgrave 2013), and she is now working on a project exploring intersecting representations of sound in fiction and film in the 1920s and 1930s.

Courses

• ENG 347 Twentieth-Century British Literature
• ENG 348 Contemporary British Literature
• CMP 125 Research Writing

Education

• Ph.D. English Language and Literature, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
• M.A. Humanities, University of Chicago
• B.A. Creative Writing and Film Studies, Oberlin College

Publications

Journal Articles

• “Impassagenwerk: Jean Rhys’s Interwar Fiction and the Modernist Impasse.” Journal of Modern Literature (2021).
• “Inadequate: New Feminist Modernist Manifestos” (Co-authored with Erica Delsandro, Jennifer Mitchell, and Lauren Rosenblum) and “Sketchy Modernism.” Feminist Modernist Studies 3.3 (October 2020).
• “Passing Through: Feminist Digital Pedagogy and Failure in the General Education Classroom.” Co-written with Lauren M. Rosenblum. Transformations: Journal of Inclusive Pedagogy and Scholarship. 29.1 (2019): 30-48.
• “Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Letters to Genevieve Taggard.” Introduced, edited, and annotated. PMLA. 133.1 (2018): 205-220.
• “From ‘The Worst Horror of All’ to ‘I Love You’”: Gender and Voice in the Cinematic Soundscapes of Brighton Rock.” Literature/Film Quarterly 46.1 (2018).
• “Media and Subjectivity in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.” Doris Lessing Studies 33 (2015): 13-18.
• “Aestheticizing Politics and Politicizing Art: The ‘Magic Apparatus’ of Cinema in Vernon Lee’s Satan the Waster.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 8.1 (2012): 65-86.

Edited Collections and Book Chapters 

• Communal Modernisms: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Classroom. Co-Editor with Emily Hinnov and Lauren Rosenblum. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
• “Visual Pleasure and the Female Gaze: ‘Inter-Active’ Cinema in the Film Writing of H.D. and Dorothy Richardson.” Communal Modernisms: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Classroom. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Book Reviews

• Review of “Jennifer Lieberman’s Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952.” Modernism/Modernity 25.2 (2018): 432-4.
• Review of “Lisa Stead’s Off to the Pictures: Cinema-going, Women’s Writing, and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 37.1 (2018): 217-220.  
• Review of “Christopher GoGwilt’s The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya.” Modern Fiction Studies 58.2 (Summer 2012): 392-4.  

Forthcoming

• “Introduction: Jean Rhys at the Crossroads” and “The Art of Failure in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Una Marson’s The Moth and the Star.” Feminist Modernist Studies. 6.2: Summer 2023.

Selected Conferences and Invited Talks

2022   

• “Modernist Monuments.” Modernist Studies Association. Portland, OR. 27-30 Oct.
• “Imagining Collaboration in the Age of Precarity.” Modernist Studies Association. Zoom. 5 Apr.
• “Networks, Infrastructures, and Other Modernist Passageways.” Modernist Studies Association. Zoom. 4 Apr.    
• “The Collaborative Turn: Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century.” Modern Language Association. Zoom. 6-9 Jan.

2021   

• “Feminist Collaboration” panel at Union College. May 12.

2019   

• “Sketchy Modernism.” Panelist. Modernist Studies Association. Toronto, ON. 17-20 Oct.

2018   

• “Yes and No: Pleasure and Its Denial in Modernist Women’s Writing.” Panelist with Lauren Rosenblum. Modernist Studies Association. Columbus, OH. 8-11 Nov.
• “Students Make Movies: Old/New Media in the Undergraduate Classroom.” Panelist. NeMLA. Pittsburgh, PA. 15-18 Apr.
• “Anthropocentrism and the Speaking Objects of Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight.” Panelist. Louisville Conference on Art and Literature since 1900. Louisville, KY. 22-24 Jan.

2017   

• “Recording Media and the Technoliterary Lifeworld in the Early Twentieth-Century Novel.” Panelist. Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. 5-8 Jan.

2016   

• “‘Film-Mind’ and Cinematic Intensities in Jean Rhys’s Interwar Novels.” Panelist. Modernist Studies Association. Pasadena, CA. 17-20 Nov.
• “George Grosz and the Expressionist Mode in Stevie Smith’s Over the Frontier.” Panelist. American Comparative Literature Association. Boston, MA. 17-20 Mar. 

2015   

• “Writing Technologies and the Syntactic Limits of the ‘Woman’s Sentence’ in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage.” Panelist. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Boston, MA. 18-20 Nov. 
• “Novel Technologies.” Invited Talk. Novel Symposium at Brown University. Providence, RI. 9-11 Nov. 
• “The Multimedia Archives of Virginia Woolf.” Panelist. International Virginia Woolf Studies Conference. Bloomsburg, PA. 4-7 June. 
• “‘Listen in to the Past’: Nostalgia and Sound Recording in Virginia Woolf’s The Years.” Panelist. Modern Language Association Conference. Vancouver, BC. 7-11 January.  

Panels, Roundtables, Seminars, and Workshops Organized

2019   

• “Transformative Collaboration Workshop.” Co-Organizer. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Toronto, OH. 17-20 Oct. 

2018   

• “Where Do You Get Off?: Modernist Women’s Writing and Graphic Ambivalence.” Organizer. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Columbus, OH. 8-11 Nov.
• “Women and Life Writing in the Era of Modernism.” Co-Organizer. Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville, KY. 22-24 Feb.

2016   

• “Modernist Texts and Core Curriculum.” Co-Organizer. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Pasadena, CA. 17-20 Nov.

2015   

• “Sensory Revolutions: Women, Modernism, Technology.” Co-Organizer and Chair. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Boston, MA. 18-20 Nov.

2014   

• “Disembodied and Embodied Modernist Voices.” Co-Organizer. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. 6-9 November.

• “New Modernist Studies and Feminist Pedagogy.” Co-Organizer and Chair. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. 6-9 November.

Pedagogical Conference Presentations

2014

• “Bridging the Gap Symposium: Writing and the Teaching of Grammar.” Invited Participant. Marymount Manhattan College. New York, NY. 3 May. 
• “Comparative Peer Responses: Webbing English Sub-Disciplines.” Roundtable Participant. Transitions and Transactions: Teaching Literature in the Community College Conference. New York, New York. 26-27 April. 
• “21st-Century Pedagogies.” Panelist. Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. 9-12 Jan.

2012   

• “Curriculum v. Pedagogy in the Evolving Literature Classroom.” Panelist. NeMLA Conference. Rochester, New York. 15-18 March.

Presentations at С����Ƶ

2022   

• “Talking about Roe.” Moderator and Co-Organizer. 19 October.
• “The Femme Fatale in Double Indemnity and Shockproof.” Speaker. FMS Symposium.

2020   

• “Cult Film Faculty Favorites: Showgirls.” Speaker. FMS Symposium. 5 March.

2019   

• “Poisoned City Faculty Panel.” Panelist. Teaching Institute. 22 May.
• “Self and Peer-Assessment.” TLC Teaching Talks. 8 Mar.  
• “How to Read a Poem.” English Faculty Forum with Dr. Matthew Goldie and Dr. Vanita Neelakanta. 14 Feb.  

2018

• “Student/Faculty Panel: New Wave Influences: Anarchy, Women, Politics, and Farce in Daisies.” FMS Symposium. 1 Mar.  
• “Student/Faculty Panel: Zombies, Race, Gender, and Politics in Night of the Living Dead.” FMS Symposium. 1 Mar.  

2017   

• “Women in Film Discussions.” Comm Week Convention with Dr. Cynthia Lucia. 28 Nov.
•  “Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Letters to Genevieve Taggard.” English Faculty Forum. 9 Nov.  

2016   

• “Civic Engagement in the Classroom.” Panelist. Faculty Development Day. С����Ƶ. 19 May.
• “Doris Lessing and the Media of Memory.” English Faculty Forum. 1 Oct.

Teaching Experience

2021-2022  Associate Professor of English, С����Ƶ

• Expository Writing (CMP 120), one section
• Research Writing (CMP 125), one section
• Literature and Composition (CMP 203), one section
• Women in Literature (ENG 230), one section
• Methods of Literary Analysis (ENG 240), one section
• Literary History II (ENG 251), one section
• Modern British Literature (ENG 323), one section
• Introduction to Women’s Studies (GSS 200), one section
• Under the Influence: Drugs, Deviance, and Culture (BHP 205), one section

Honors Capstone and URSA Projects Advised:

• Michaela Hamaid, BHP Honors Capstone: “He Said, She Said: Reclamations of the Literary Canon,” Spring 2022 (Awarded Best Capstone Project).
• Maire Wilson, BHP Honors Capstone: “Pushing the Rock up Piccadilly Circus: An Analysis of Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland,” Spring 2022.
• Emily Siegel, URSA: “Of bodies changed: Adaptations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” Fall 2022.

2017-2021 Assistant Professor II of English, С����Ƶ

• Introduction to Expository Writing (CMP 115), two sections
• Expository Writing (CMP 120), three sections
• Research Writing (CMP 125), two sections
• Literature and Composition (CMP 203), one section
• Twentieth-Century British Literature (ENG 347), one section 
• Modern British Literature (ENG 332), two sections 
• Literary History II (ENG 251), two sections
• Methods of Literary Analysis (ENG 240), one section
• Women in Literature (ENG 230), four sections
• Women in Film (FMS 300), two sections
• Artist of the Cinema: Douglas Sirk (FMS 342), one section
• Introduction to Women’s Studies (GSS 200), one section
• Feminist Literary Criticism (GSS 300), one section  
• Gender, War, and Peace (GSS 312), one section

2014-2017 Assistant Professor I of English, С����Ƶ

• Research Writing (CMP 125), six sections
• Twentieth-Century British Literature (ENG 347), two sections 
• Contemporary British Literature (ENG 348), two sections
• Book 3.0: Exploring Literature Online (ENG 356), one section
• Major British Authors (ENG 211), one section
• Women in Literature (ENG 230), one section
• Great Ideas I (BHP 100), one section
• Introduction to Women’s Studies (GND 200), one section

Awards and Honors

• 2022    Distinguished Teaching Award. Awarded Fall 2022.
• 2021    Ziegler-Gee Award in GSS. Awarded Spring 2021.
  • С����Ƶ Summer Research Fellowship. Awarded Spring 2021.  
• 2020    Henry J. Frank Award for Rider AAUP Service. Awarded Fall 2020.         
• 2017    С����Ƶ Summer Faculty Development Fellowship. Awarded Spring 2017.
• 2016    С����Ƶ Summer Research Fellowship. Awarded Spring 2016.
• 2015    С����Ƶ Summer Research Fellowship. Awarded Spring 2015.
• 2014    PSC-CUNY Summer Salary Research Grant. Awarded Spring 2014.