Interests and Information
(Hire Date: 2000)
Ph. D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2001
(English and American literature)
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1995
(English and American literature)
B.A., Amherst College, 1985
(English)
tkill@email.unc.edu
MLA 2006 "Neurological Aesthetics"
Jane Thrailkill
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(hire date: 2000)
Areas of Expertise:
•Literary/Historical: Nineteenth-Century U.S. and English Literature, American Literary Realism and Naturalism, Post-Civil War American Literature, History of the Novel.
•Theoretical: Feminist, Literary and Cultural Theory; Aesthetics and Affect Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory
•Interdisciplinary: History of the Body, Science Studies, Literature and Neurology, Medical Humanities
Works in progress:
• Book in press: Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism, Harvard UP, June 2007 — Read an excerpt (PDF) and publisher's information.
• Book: The (Un)Conscious Child: Literary Form, Trauma Theory, and the Modern Subject
•"Emotive Realism" (forthcoming in Journal of Narrative Theory)
•Book Review of Karen Sanchez-Eppler's Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture in Legacy 23: 2 (2006), 201-203
• Book Chapter: "Neurological Aesthetics, circa 1885," for essay collection Neurology and Modernity, eds. Andres Shail and laura Salisbury (forthcoming).
• Book Chapter: "Kate Chopin's Lyrical Anodyne for the Modern Soul," for essay collection Rethinking adn Rereading Kate Chopin, ed. Heather Ostman (forthcoming)
• Book Chapter: "Trauma Theory and the Quotidian Occult," for Spoiler Warnings: Critical Essays on the Films of M. Night Shyamalan, ed. Jeffrey A. Weinstock (forthcoming).