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Dr. Leonard Orr (509)372-7253 |
Research interests:
Critical theory, Narrative theory, Holocaust in literature and art, contemporary novel, trauma and memory in literature, diaspora and exile studies
I have taught and studied many areas of literature and critical theory from African-American literature to Postmodernism, from the History of Criticism to Gender Studies, including the full range of American literature courses, British literature since the 17th century, and comparative literature. I have written or edited has written or edited many books including A Dictionary of Critical Theory, A Joseph Conrad Companion, Critical Essays on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Problems and Poetics of the Nonaristotelian Novel and Don DeLillo’s White Noise: A Reader’s Guide. Currently, I am editing a collection Joyce, Imperialism, and Post-Colonialism.
In recent years I have been pursuing interdisciplinary research and teaching in the area of representations of the Holocaust, resulting in a course now in the WSU catalogue, and fellowships in seminars at the centers for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Following from the Holocaust has led to studying genocide, trauma and memory (as represented in literature, film, and art), and diaspora and exile literature.
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