Women's Studies Program

Boston University

Faculty: Carrie Preston
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Carrie Preston has been an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and English at Boston University since 2006. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Literature with a Women’s Studies Certification. Her research and teaching interests include women’s literature and performance, modernism/postmodernism, feminist theory, gender studies, silent film, and dance. Her work on Isadora Duncan and Modernist Performance has appeared in Modernism/Modernity and Theatre Journal. Her book, Solo Performance: A New Genealogy of Women’s Modernism, is nearing completion. She has won a 2007 NEH grant to begin research in Dublin on the dance plays of W.B. Yeats and performance in James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Professor Preston teaches Performing Women: Drama, Dance, Film, and Feminisms (WS 305), a course which considers women as performers and dramatists and stagings of gender from antiquity to the present. The course examines drama, dance, film, and social performances from political rallies to everyday role-playing and includes readings in performance and feminist theory. In the Department of English, she teaches Gender in 20th Century Literature, Modernist Fiction, and Feminist Theories.
Office: 236 Bay State Road, #323 - Phone: 617-353-2506 - Email: cjpresto@bu.edu