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Maren Linett

Associate Professor, Department of English Office: Heavilon 314A
Office Phone: (765) 494-3848
Office Fax: (765) 494-3780
Email: mlinett@purdue.edu

Specialization:

British Literature; Modern British fiction; Anglo-American modernism; Modern Irish Literature
Homepage: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mlinett

Maren Linett specializes in modern British fiction with secondary specializations in Anglo-American modernism and Anglo-Irish literature. She has published articles on Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and James Joyce. Her first book, Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness, was published in Fall 2007 from Cambridge University Press, and she has begun work on two edited volumes: a Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers (Cambridge UP) and Virginia Woolf: An MFS Reader (Johns Hopkins UP). In 2005 she guest-edited a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies entitled Modernism's Jews / Jewish Modernisms. Linett teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern British literature, modernist women writers, Jews and gender in modern fiction, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce.