In recent years, modernist studies has proven to be a dynamic field of ongoing inquiry, encompassing everything from canonical aesthetics to primary evidence for the latest modes of critical analysis. Here at Buffalo, an engaging faculty is paired with remarkable archival resources to produce an atmosphere singularly conducive to modernist studies. True to the development of the field, the English department offers ample opportunity to discover modernism in its most expansive and challenging articulations. Faculty members and graduate students pursue the study of modernism in the varied, mutually informing contexts of:
Material Textuality / Archival and Institutional Critique
Providing source-materials for the exploration of enduring editorial questions of modernist textuality and archival research, the Poetry Collection / Rare Books Room possesses world-renowned holdings in the textual history of the twentieth century.
Post-Colonial Studies & Imperial Conditions
Issues of race, diaspora, globalization, nationalism and trans-nationalism, internationalism, and transatlantic configurations serve to orient faculty and graduate student research and pedagogy.
Contiguity
The intellectual and scholarly tenor of the department strongly encourages the necessary expansion of the study of modernism to encompass contiguous fields, periods, and disciplinary approaches.
Politics of Modernist Aesthetics.
Attentive to theory’s past and future, Buffalo has a continuing and vibrant interest in the relationship of aesthetic practice, theoretical innovation, and political and cultural contextualization.
Finally, we are pleased to announce that Buffalo will proudly host the International James Joyce Conference (2009) and the Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference (2011).
Modernism at Buffalo
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