Anastatia Curley
Assistant Professor, General Faculty; Associate Director for Pedagogy, Writing and Rhetoric Program
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30pm-5:30pm.
Class Schedule: TuTh 2:00PM-3:15PM; We 5:00PM-7:30PM
Degrees
Ph.D., English, University of Virginia, 2018
M.A., Irish Studies, Boston College, 2012
B.A., English, Yale University, 2007
Research Interests:
Academic and professional writing, 20th and 21st century postcolonial and global Anglophone literature, Media studies, History and theory of the novel
Publications
“Smaller and Less Beautiful: Refusal Aesthetics in the Contemporary Novel,” Politics/Letters (http://politicsslashletters.org/2016/11/smaller-and-less-beautiful)
Selected Fellowships and Grants
- Lazarus Fellowship, Yale Sustainable Food Program, 2017 – 2018
- Buckner W. Clay Grant from the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, 2016
- Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia English Department, 2016
- Mellon Graduate Teaching Seminar for Excellence in the Humanities Fellowship, 2014-2015
Presentations
- “Looking for the Bodies: Charismatic Characters and Vulnerable Populations," Media Intimacy (Yale Film and Media Studies Conference), February 2017
- “The Return of the Nation in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction," American Conference on Irish Studies, March 2016
- Panel Co-Chair, “The De-Worlding of Irish Studies: Reminders of the Local”
- “Rewiring the Novel: Flat Characters in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah," The Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Meeting, September 2015
- “The Afterlife of the Big House: Instability Becomes Nostalgia," American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, March 2014