Professional Profile
Deirdre Egan is an assistant professor of English and director of American studies here at St. Norbert College. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in 20th century American Literature and taking minor coursework in the history and culture of the U.S. West.
Deirdre's scholarly work investigates the ways that our relationship to space and place influence our modern and American identities. She is fascinated especially by the ways that women writing during the first few decades of the 20th century found themselves negotiating gendered identities through the shifting cultural spaces of American modernity: urban and rural, private and public. Her dissertation research focused on the space of New York City as a rich site of modern identity formation, especially for women writers and urban planners like Willa Cather, Mina Loy, Zora Neale Hurston and Catherine Bauer. Her more recent work turns to the flip-side of this modernity to examine what have become known as more "natural" or "rural" spaces. Looking to national parks and the American "frontier" as they are rendered by maps with accompanying text and modernist narrative techniques, Deirdre's more recent projects examine the notion of place as it defines what it is to be American and modern amidst the complex cultural upheavals of the early 20th century.
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Deirdre E. Egan
Assistant Professor of English
Director of American Studies Program
Location: Boyle Hall
Room: 331
Phone: (920) 403-2927
Fax: (920) 403-4086
Mailing Address:
St. Norbert College
Boyle Hall 331
De Pere, WI 54115-2099
deirdre.egan@snc.edu
Academic credentials:
B.A. College of the Holy Cross
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses taught:
Harlem Renaissance
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to American Studies
Literature of Service
Modern American Novel
Modern Poetry
U.S. Literature after 1865
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