I have particular interests in transnational modernist literatures, Asian-American fiction, the Japanese 'I novel', interactions between American modernism and Latin American modernismo, and Caribbean/ Harlem Renaissance interchanges. I also explore intersections between periodical culture and Medical Humanities and Interdisciplinary Approaches to literature.
Current and previous research grants include:
- 2022-24 Printed Matters: Representations of the Caribbean in Periodicals
PI: Louise Kane, Co-PI: Liz Hopwood, Loyola Chicago
This project will create a database of early periodical articles that discussed Caribbean literature and history. The project is funded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals' Field Development Grant, which was awarded in 2022. - 2021 Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American Literature, the University of Virginia.
- 2019-20 Literature, the Consoler: Modernism, Medical Humanities, and Mental Health
PI: Louise Kane
This interdisciplinary series of lecture-workshops ran throughout the pandemic and asked the general public to consider how modernist writers and their work can play a positive role in overcoming mental health struggles. The project was funded by a Florida Humanities Council Community Project Grant, which was in part funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
