Sastri, Dr Reena
Job Title: Early Career Fellow in American Literature
College: Exeter
Subject/ Period: American / 20th-21st century
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Research Interests:
Modern and contemporary American poetry; the lyric 'I'; psychoanalysis and literature; literature and science; American literature and culture
Teaching Areas:
Oxford: 19th and 20th c American literature
Previous: American literature and culture; British and Irish modernism; modern Irish poetry
Recent Publications:
Books:
James Merrill: Knowing Innocence (Routledge, 2007)
Articles and chapters:
'Intimacy and agency in Lowell's Day by Day'. Contemporary Literature (forthcoming 2009)
'A Scattering of Salts: Merrill's Temporal Innocence'. Twentieth-Century Literature (2004)
Other Information:
Current research:
'Indelible Voice': Louise Glück and the Work of Lyric (book)
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (March-April 2010)
'Between Modernism and the Lyric' (panel) and 'Death, husband, god, stranger: the otherness of lyric in Gluck's Averno' (paper), Modernist Studies Association, Montréal, November 2009
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