Erin Speese

Erin Johns Speese completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at West Virginia University. Her primary research focus includes British and American modernism--particularly the modernist novel. Her current book project, "The Modernist Sublime: The Intersubjective Sublime Subject in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf," explores how modern novelists reimagined the sublime as an intersubjective experience between two Victorian parents. She is also working on a second book project entitled "The Chemistry of Literature," which looks at the relationship between the language of scientists as well as creative writers in Britain and the United States from the nineteenth century forward. She has taught various courses in a wide range of topics from literature, writing, and popular culture, including: "Modernist Identities and the Aesthetics of Form," "Science, the Mind, Identity, and British Literature from Romanticism to the Present," "Dystopian Spaces and Individual Identities," and "Superheroes, Super Geeks, the Supernatural, and the Magical as Cultural Critique."

• Ph.D., English, West Virginia University, 2013
• M.A., English, West Virginia University, 2007
• B.A., English Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 2005