THE INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY

“A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”  ~Benjamin Disraeli

Dr. Julia White has a B.A. in English from Rollins College, M.A. in English from the University of South Florida, Ph.D. in English from the University of South Florida, and Certificate in Digital Humanities from Oxford University. She has served as secretary, vice president, and president of the Florida College English Association. Dr. White’s  primary research focuses on global history as a theoretical approach to aesthetics and literary studies. She was honored to win a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to pursue study of W. B. Yeats at the National University of Ireland and Trinity College. W. B. Yeats: A Reassessment required alliance with scholars from the USA, Ireland, and the UK as well as joint publication. She has also won NEH grants to study Shakespeare at the Folger Library: From the Globe to the Global and Modernism at Stanford University: Cultures of Interwar Urban Modernism. Dr. White’s most recent book, The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory (Routledge), makes use of postcolonial theory to track both the tensions and intersections between modernism and imperialism in the modern novel. The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory is part of Wellesley's Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series. She is currently co-editing a book that evolved from NEH research at Stanford University: Transnational Modernism in the Interwar Era. Dr. White also participates in professional activities (FCEA, CEA, MLA) and related publications. Her courses include British Literature I & II, American Literature I & II and World Literature I & II. She is committed to interdisciplinary teaching and learning. In teaching writing, she accentuates the relationship between thinking and writing central to the Writing to Learn Movement (Rossenwasser & Stephen). While at the University of South Florida, Dr. White was honored to receive the James Parrish Award for Outstanding Teaching.

INKLINKS INTERVIEW ~ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA