People
Profile: Megan Ahern
Title: GSI/ L&L & WS
Contact Info
Office:
3089 TH
Hours:
Tu/Th 1:30-2:30
Phone:
Uniqname:
mkahern
email:
Website:
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Research Interests
Primary Interests
Late-20th-century U.S. women’s novels; feminist theory, gender studies; trauma and memory, neuroscience of traumatic memory, cultural history of trauma studies and brain studies, the materiality of subjectivity
Secondary Interests
African American literature; African literature, particularly Swahili; masculinity studies; language and identity, the relationship of literature to politics
Publications
“In(sub)ordinate Speech: Bourdieuian
Heterodoxy in Walcott’s Pantomime.” ARIEL: A Review
of International English Literature 38.4
(2007): 1-23.
Additional Info
Programs Completed
Prior Education
Fulbright-Hays Intensive Advanced Swahili Language and Literature Program
University of Georgia, in Arusha, Tanzania, Summer 2006
Intensive Intermediate Swahili Language and Literature Program
Yale University, in Mombasa, Kenya, Summer 2005
Prior Education
M.A., University of Connecticut, May 2006
B.A., Dartmouth College, June 2002

