Associate Professor
zemgulys@umich.eduOffice Information:
3187E Angell hours: Wednesdays 12-1 3187E
Graduate Faculty; British; Geography and Literature; Modernism; Novel and Narrative; Transatlantic; Travel; Nineteenth Century British; Twentieth Century British; English
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 2001
Current Courses
ENGLISH 321-097
Internship
ENGLISH 464-001
Studies in Individual Authors
Highlighted Work and Publications
Modernism and the Locations of Literary Heritage
Andrea Zemgulys
Modernist writers in the early twentieth century aimed to write in inventive and transformative ways, but they lived in places celebrated for their association with the achievements of past generations. For E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, this contrast was strongly felt: living and writing in London, they found themselves in a city that was being fashioned as "historic" in ways incongruous with their own critical ideals. In this innovative study, Andrea Zemgulys reads the early writings of Forster, Eliot, and Woolf against the development of a growing heritage industry in England... See More