Faculty Profile

Dr. Bridget T. Chalk Assistant Professor of English

Education:

• B.A., Villanova University, 2002
• M.A., Brandeis University, 2005
• Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2009

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature and culture; modernism; colonial and post-colonial studies; history and theory of the novel; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; literary and critical theory. I am currently working on a book project about interwar modernism and the passport system.

Publications:

“‘I Am Not England’: Narrative and National Identity in Aaron’s Rod and Sea and           Sardinia.” JML: The Journal of Modern Literature 31.4 (Summer 2008), 54-70.

“‘Sensible of Being Etrangers’: Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo.” forthcoming in Twentieth Century Literature.

Review of David Ellis’s Death and the Author: How D.H. Lawrence Died, and was Remembered. forthcoming in The Journal of British Studies 48.4 (October 2009).

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• ENGL 110: College Writing
• ENGL 310: British Literature II
• LLRN 204: Roots of the Modern Age: Literature

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-7119
• Office: Miguel 422
• Fax: (718) 862-8044
• e-mail: bridget.chalk@manhattan.edu

Page last updated by M. LaMonica: August 2009