Emily James

Bio

Emily James is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Women at University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She teaches twentieth-century literature and visual culture; and writes about modernism, composition, and creative process. Her work can be found in Twentieth-Century LiteratureJournal of Modern LiteratureModernist CulturesLiterature and Medicine, and The Space Between

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One who is of the camouflage is called a camoufleur. —H. Ledyard Towle [1] Modernism and camouflage would seem to be unlikely allies. One advances and the other retreats. One rebels and resists; the other lurks undercover. But during World War I, a group of renegade camoufleurs forged an uneasy truce between modernism’s flash and camouflage’s muted secrets. Their sources were extraordinary and eclectic. Drawing inspiration from animal behavior, avant-garde design, and women’s fashion, the...