Joyce Wexler

About

Offices Held:

• Chair of English Department (2008-2018)
• President of the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America 2016-18
• First Vice-President of Joseph Conrad Society of North America 2018-20
• Director of University Honors Program 1986-2008

Degrees

• PhD, Northwestern University 

Program Areas

• Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture
• British Literature and Culture

Research Interests

• Twentieth-Century Aesthetic Movements
• Cultural Studies
• Publishing History
• Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence

Selected Publications

Books:

• Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today. Palgrave MacMillan, 2021.
• Violence Without God: The Rhetorical Despair of Twentieth-Century Writers. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
• Who Paid for Modernism: Art, Money, and the Fiction of Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence. University of Arkansas Press, 1997.
• Laura Riding: A Bibliography. Garland, 1981.
• Laura Riding’s Pursuit of Truth. Ohio University Press, 1974.

Articles:

• “How Lawrence Launched His Career in London,” Special Issue: “Lawrence and London,” Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies. Forthcoming.
• “Under Western Eyes and Terrorism Today,” Conradiana 49.1. Forthcoming.
• “Conrad’s Erotic Women,” College Literature 45.3 (2018). 424-448.
• “Book Publishers.” D.H. Lawrence in Context. Ed. Andrew Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 37-46.
• “Beyond Pacifism: Teaching World War I Literature from Left to Right.” Pedagogy 17.3 (2017): 541-547.