Anne MacMaster

I teach an array of courses in English and American literature, ranging from “Milton and the English Revolution” to “Modernism and Film.” I especially enjoy teaching courses that allow us to delve deep into the works of a single author, devoting a whole course to each of the following authors: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison. The literary movement called modernism fascinates me, and, in addition to exploring the links between modernists writing in English (such as Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner), I am drawn to the European modernists, including Kafka, Mann, and Proust. Questions about the history of the novel also intrigue me: How do we get from Jane Austen to Henry James? from Charles Dickens to Zadie Smith? Yet another field of inquiry that excites me concerns the adaptation of fiction to film, a field which yields such courses as “Frankenstein: Origins and Adaptations” and “Vampires on Page, Stage, and Screen.”  In addition to English and American literature, I also teach the  Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, in which we read Robyn Ryle’s Questioning Gender and Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Feminist Thought, exploring gender and sexuality from a wide variety of perspectives.