Andrea Zemgulys

Bio

Andrea Zemgulys is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan with a courtesy appointment in Women & Gender Studies. Her first book, Modernism and the Locations of Literary Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2008), studied the emplacement of literary/readers’ memory and the musealization of writers’ lives in England as components to early-twentieth-century urbanization and as contexts for literary modernism. Her second book project studies graphic arts in relation to modern literature from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Recent articles have appeared in Modernism/modernity and Women: A Cultural Review. She teaches on topics ranging from modernism to contemporary literatures, across media and genres, with an emphasis on women writers and social history/politics.

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Contributions

Bullied Young Women, Virginia Woolf’s Sex Japes, and Modernist Sociability in the Time of #MeToo

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Over the last decade, #MeToo and the work of activists like Tarana Burke have brought attention to tacitly permitted sexual exploitation on university campuses and in work environments both on and off the clock. As #MeToo transformed the world around me, rumors I had come across in my scholarship regarding a poet laureate from nearly two centuries ago took on new significance. The rumors hinted at coercion and violation experienced by young women who found themselves in the company of Alfred...

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