Lecia Rosenthal

Education
Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, October 2001
M.Phil., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, October 1998
M.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, May 1994
B.A., Brown University, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa,  December 1992

Biography
Lecia Rosenthal specializes in 20th-century British literature with a focus on British modernism. Her research and teaching interests also include literary and critical theory, feminism, and postcolonial studies. She is currently completing, "The Futures of Literature," a manuscript on literary prophecy and the secular imagination. Her next research project is on British modernism, psychoanalysis, and the occult. She received her PhD from the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2001.

Curriculum Vitae
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Research Interests

• 20th-century British literature
• British Modernism
• Gender and Postcolonial Studies
• Literary Theory
• Critical Theory
• Psychoanalysis

Courses Taught

• 20th-Century British Literature and the Representation of Violence
• The Differences of Modernism: The Work of Virginia Woolf
• The Ends of Literature: Readings in 20th-Century British Fiction
• Introduction to British Literary Modernism
• Catastrophe and Memory

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