Carrie J. Preston
cjpresto@bu.edu
Assistant Professor. B.A. Michigan State University; M.A., Ph.D. Rutgers University
Teaching/Research Interests: modernism/postmodernism, Victorian and modernist literature and culture, gender studies, women’s literature, performance theory, dance.
Selected Publications: “You! hypocrite, lecteur!: New Readings of T.S. Eliot,” Twentieth-Century Literature 53.3 (Fall 2007); “The Motor in the Soul: Isadora Duncan and Modernist Performance,” Modernism/modernity 12.2 (2005); "Review, Isadora...no apologies," Theatre Journal 55.3 (2003).
Work in Progress: Solo Performance: A New Genealogy of Modernism.
Noh Modernisms: W. B. Yeats, Michio Ito, and Transnational Performance.
Honors/Grants/Awards: Peter Paul Career Development Professorship (2007-2010), National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, Dublin (2007), Mellon Dissertation Research Grant (2005); Ruth Flanagan Dissertation Fellowship (2003-2004); Cavanaugh Award, National Society of Arts and Letters (2003); Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (2000-2001); Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts (2000).