Madelyn Detloff, Professor/Chair, English, Miami University

Candidate statement

I have been a member of MSA since its inception and have attended 19 of 20 MSA conferences since the first MSA conference at Penn State in 1999. My work is interdisciplinary, with a cultural studies focus on modernist literary and cultural production. My engagement with modernism has been consistent over my career, even when I have delved into feminist, queer, and crip theoretical intellectual work. My publications include The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the 20th Century (Cambridge UP 2009), The Value of Woolf (Cambridge UP 2016), Queer Bloomsbury, co-edited with Brenda Helt (Edinburgh UP 2016), and several essays in venues such as Modernism/modernity (print and print+), Feminist Modernist Studies, ELN, and Hypatia. I co-organized the 17th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf at Miami University in 2007, and two regional Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposia for Miami University. I have administrative experience as former Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and current Chair of English at Miami University. I am a former co-Chair of the H.D. International Society, former Vice President of the International Virginia Woolf Society, and former executive board member for the MLA Forum on Women’s and Gender Studies in Language and Literature.