Vicki Mahaffey

http://www.english.illinois.edu/people/vmahaffe

Vicki Mahaffey received her Ph.D. from Princeton, with a specialty in Modernism and modern Irish literature. Her /Reauthorizing Joyce/ was published in hardcover by Cambridge University Press and in paperback by Florida University Press. /States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment/ was published by Oxford University Press in 1998. She has received Ira Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Lindback Award for teaching; she is a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation. She is currently finishing two books: Literary Modernism: An Introduction, and The Joyce of Everyday Life.

Since retiring from Penn, Prof. Mahaffey has held the chair of Modern Literature at the University of York, England, and she is currently the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Chair of English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois.

Awards

2003 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching

2002 Alan Filreis Teaching Award, Sponsored by the English Undergraduate Advisory Board

1996 Alan Filreis Teaching Award, Sponsored by the English Undergraduate Advisory Board

1983 Ira Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching

Doctoral Dissertations Chaired

2007

Veronica Schanoes "Re-Visionary Fantasies: Feminism, Fairy Tales, and Revision"

Emily Zinn "Rewriting the Kitchen: Gender and Food in Contemporary Fiction"

2006

Carolyn A. Lesnick "The End of Decline: Anglo-Irish Literature of the Big House"

John P. Lessard "Entertaining Cinema: Hollywood, Globalization, and the Geography of Cultural Value"

2004

Bronwyn Beistle "Honeyed Secrets: Authority, Sexuality, and Flower Imagery in Women's Literature from Wollstonecraft to McGukian"

Cynthia Port "'Nothing by Change': Women's Economies of Aging, 1919-1939"

2002

Michael Barsanti "Law Like Love: Marriage, Law, and the Modern Novel"

Maurice Black "The Art of Code"

2000

Kerry Moore "Mourning Loss: The Place of the Object in Narrative Fantasy"

1999

Po Fang "The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning: Pater, Wilde, and Yeats"

1998

Amanda Mason "Intimacy, Politics, and Virginia Woolf: A Queered-Feminist Analysis"

1997

Eugene McGarry "Incarnation and Intertextuality in Faulkner's Major Novels"

1996

Kathryn Anne Conrad "Stag/nation: Reproducing the Irish National Subject"

1995

Barbara Lonnquist "James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Two-Tongue Common Readers: Egypt and the Rites of Allusion in Finnegan's Wake and Between the Acts"

1993

David Lawrence "Figuring the Flesh: The Intimate Horrors of Authority"

1992

David Herman "Universal Grammar and Narrative Form: Structure, Meaning Context"

Lisa Myers "Embodied Voices: Public and Private Self-Presentation in Modern Poetry"

Joseph Valente "James Joyce and the Problem of Justice: Crossing Sexual and Colonial Differences"

1991

Jill Rosser "The Modern Solution: Absence and the Unsaid in Henry James and Samuel Beckett"

1990

Allyson Booth "Post Cards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space Between Modernism and the First World War"

1988

Henriette Lazaridis Power "Shahrazade's Wake: The Arabian Nights and the Narrative Dynamics of Charles Dickens and James Joyce"

Courses Taught

fall 2005

ENGL 258.401 Homer and Joyce

ENGL 768.301 Joyce

summer 2005

ENGL 255.950 Jane Austen and Popular Culture

ENGL 261.950 Virginia Woolf

spring 2004

ENGL 016.304 Feminist Fairy Tales

ENGL 365.301 Finnegans Wake

fall 2003

ENGL 365.401 Yeats

ENGL 581.301 Oscar Wilde

spring 2003

ENGL 290.403 Feminist Fairy Tales

ENGL 310.301 Literary Authority and the Holocaust

ENGL 410.640 Literary Approaches to the Holocaust

fall 2002

ENGL 365.401 Homer and Joyce

ENGL 768.301 Joyce

spring 2002

ENGL 290.401 Topics in Women and Literature

ENGL 310.301 Literary Authority and the Holocaust

fall 2001

ENGL 365.401 Homer & Joyce

ENGL 592.301 Feminist Fairy Tales

summer 2001

ENGL 067.950 London in Literature

spring 2001

ENGL 210.401 Modernism

ENGL 365.301 Oscar Wilde

fall 2000

ENGL 290.403 Topics In Women & Literature canceled

ENGL 390.401 Feminist Fairy Tales

ENGL 568.301 Yeats

fall 1998

ENGL 063.001 Irish Literature

spring 1998

ENGL 290.401 Topics in Women and Literature

fall 1997

ENGL 290.401 Topics in Women and Literature canceled

summer 1997

ENGL 067.950 London in Literature

spring 1997

ENGL 265.301 Women and Flowers in 20th Century Irish Lit.

ENGL 309.301 Junior Honors Seminar:James Joyce

fall 1996

ENGL 104.001 The 20th Century

ENGL 290.401 Topics in Women and Literature

spring 1996

ENGL 290.401 Feminist Fairy Tales

fall 1995

ENGL 290.402 Feminist Fairy Tales canceled

ENGL 592.401 Feminist Mythstories

fall 1979

ENGL 093.001 Major British Writers I