Mara de Gennaro
219 Vaughan Literature
(570) 577-1653
mara.degennaro@bucknell.edu
Mara de Gennaro (Ph.D. Columbia University) is an Assistant Professor of English. Her work focuses on practices and theorizations of modernism ranging from canonical British and expatriate American literature from the early twentieth century, to French and francophone Caribbean avant-gardes, to literature and theory of the Global South, especially postcolonial African and Caribbean diasporas.
Current Projects
She is completing a book entitled "Modernism and the New Canon of the Global South." Through a series of comparative readings, her book examines how twentieth-century Anglo-American, Caribbean, and African writers have conceived poetic imagination in ways that both promote transnational and transhuman experiences of sympathy and solidarity, and foreground the pitfalls of such forms of identification. Together these writers, which include T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Aimé Césaire, J. M. Coetzee, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Edwidge Danticat, offer us a probing alternative to complacent multiculturalist formulations of "tolerance."
Selected Courses Taught or Planned
International Modernism
20th-Century Novel
Global English
Modern Caribbean Literature
Comparative African Literature
Introduction to World Literature
Globalization and its Discontents (seminar on postcoloniality in relation to globalization)
Modern Fiction (seminar on pairings of English modernist and global anglophone novels)
Woolf and Byatt (seminar)
Negritude and its Critics (seminar)
Transatlantic Modernist Primitivism (seminar)
