Maren Linett
- Professor // English
- Coordinator // Critical Disability Studies // SIS
- Affiliated Faculty // Jewish Studies // SIS
- Affiliated Faculty // Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies // SIS
Research Focus
Modernist literature and culture; disability studies
Curriculum vitae
Office and Contact
Room: SC 284
Email: mlinett@purdue.edu
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1999
Biography
Maren Linett specializes in transatlantic modernist fiction and disability studies. Her first book, Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness, was published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press and reissued in paperback in 2011. Her second book, Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature, was published in 2017 as part of the Corporealities series of the University of Michigan Press, and has been selected to be made open access as part of Big Ten Open Books. In 2020, Linett published Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human with NYU Press as part of its series Crip: New Directions in Disability Studies. Linett has edited Virginia Woolf: An MFS Reader (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009) and The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers (Cambridge UP, 2010), and published articles on an array of modernist writers. Her current book project is entitled Making Us New: From Eugenics to Transhumanism in Modernist Culture. Linett teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on transatlantic modernism, modernist women writers, narrative medicine, literature in the age of eugenics and other eugenics courses, and various courses in disability studies.