Faculty Directory
Janet Lyon
Associate Professor of English, Women's Studies, and Science, Technology, and Society
Contact:
19 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-9681
jwl12@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Monday 12-2:30 and Tuesday 12:30-2
Educational History:
Ph.D. University of Virginia
M.A. University of Virginia
R.N. Grace-New Haven School of Nursing
B.A. Trinity College
Research Interests:
Modernism and modernity; gender and sexuality; aesthetic and sociological collectivity; literary and critical theory; disability studies; Roma culture
Awards:
The College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award, 2007
The University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1999
Fellow, University of Illinois Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, 1994-95
University of Illinois Vice Chancellor's Teaching Scholar, 1992-93
Major Publications:
Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern (Cornell 1999)
Work in progress: A book about literary salons: The Perfect Hostess: Salons in Modernity
Other Publications:
Assorted articles and book chapters including, most recently:
" Gadze Modernism," Modernism/modernity 11.3 (September 2004), reprinted in Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity eds. L. Doyle and L. Winkiel (Indiana, forthcoming 2005)
"Gender and Sexuality," Cambridge Companion to American Modernism ed. W. Kaladjian (Cambridge, forthcoming 2005)
"Manifestoes from the Sex War," The Gender Complex of Modernism, ed. B. K. Scott (Illinois, forthcoming 2005)
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