Irina Rasmussen Associate Professor (Docent)
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Name and title: Irina RasmussenAssociate Professor (Docent)
Workplace: Department of English Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room 884Universitetsvägen 10 E, plan 8
Postal address Engelska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
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About me
My research focuses on modernist literature and culture broadly defined, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between literary aesthetics and material cultures.
My ongoing research project, James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Historical Record, elucidates the relationship between Joyce’s aesthetic modernism and nationalism and internationalism, aligning the novel with the historical avant-gardes. Parts of this project have been published as articles in James Joyce Quarterly (2010), Modernism/ modernity (2013), Joyce Studies Annual (2019), and Comparative Litertature (2019).
My latest research project, Documentary Modernism: World Sympathies, Ideal Collectivities, and Dissenting Individualism, explores three collaborative socially-conscious projects of the 1920s and 1930s: a multi-modal modernist anthology; a modernist reportage that juxtaposes a photographic series with a literary form; and a scrapbook archive designed as a form of vernacular historiography. The project participates in the studies of book history, new modernism, and world literature. Parts of this project have been published as chapters in edited collections: Ethics and Poetics ( Cambridge Scholars, 2014), World Literatures (Stockholm UP, 2018), and Literature and Making of the World (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Please contact irina.rasmussen@english.su.se if you are interested in Degree Thesis supervision.
I teach on a variety of undergraduate and MA-level courses concerning literary history, including courses on Shakespeare in relation to book history and critical theory, on Modernist literature and culture, and Literary Theory.
My areas of specialization are Anglophone and Russian modernisms, the Harlem Renaissance studies, the James Joyce studies, the modernist reception of William Shakespeare, and book history.