Pamela L. Caughie

Title/s:  Professor Emerita

Office #:  Crown Center 425

Phone: 773.508.2683

Email: pcaughi@luc.edu

External Webpage: https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/english/docsamppdfs/facultyresumescvs/Pamela%20Caughie%20CV.pdf

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About

As a modernist scholar and a feminist and gender theorist, my research has focused on feminist and poststructuralist theoretical interventions in the study of modernist and postmodernist literature and culture, and on “identity issues,” especially gender, sexuality, race, and class. I regularly teach courses on modernism, postmodernism, feminism, and gender and transgender studies. Graduate seminars offered in the past six years include “Queer Modernity,” “Feminist Theory,” “Postmodernism,” and “Virginia Woolf and Transnational Modernism,” the latter designed around the theme of the 2014 International Virginia Woolf Conference,” which I co-hosted at Loyola. Recent undergraduate courses have featured “The Feminist Avant-Garde,” “Trans* Narratives,” “Contemporary Theory,” and “African American Literature.” I am also a former president of the Modernist Studies Association, former director of the English graduate program, and former director of the Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Program.

Over the past decade I have become increasingly involved in digital humanities. I am currently on the advisory board of our Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, where I also serve on the Graduate Committee. I am a founding- and co-director of Modernist Networks, a consortium of digital projects in modernist literature and culture, and a co-editor of Woolf Online, a digital archive of Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. Presently I am project director for the Lili Elbe Digital Archive, a digital edition and archive of Man into Woman (1933), the life narrative of Lili Elbe, one of the first persons to undergo gender confirmation surgery in 1930.

Along with directing this digital project, I am co-editor, with Sabine Meyer, a transgender scholar from Berlin, of Man into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition, to be published in Bloomsbury Academic’s Modernist Archives series (January 2020). I have edited or co-edited three other books, and have published two monographs and over forty book chapters and articles on modernism, Woolf, technology, and theory.

I love what I do, and I am aware every day of my life how privileged I am to be able to say that. Hours spent discussing theory with students in office hours and at local coffee shops, or editing a student’s writing, are, for me, not hours lost from my own work, but pleasure gained from an exchange of ideas with others whose interests and passions become my own. This is why I love digital humanities collaborative work. I feel fortunate every day that I am able to do what I love to do, and that enjoyment in my work is what I hope to pass onto my students. I see my primary role as a Loyola faculty member as modeling the passion for ideas and the generosity of spirit that enables liberal education to work. 

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Selected works of Dr. Caughie's can be accessed digitally through the University Library.

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