Anastatia Curley
Assistant Professor, General Faculty; Associate Director, Writing and Rhetoric Program
Dawson's Row 204
Office Hours: On leave Spring 2023.
Degrees
Ph.D., English, University of Virginia, 2018
M.A., Irish Studies, Boston College, 2012
B.A., English, Yale University, 2007
Research Interests:
Writing pedagogy, writing studies theory, media studies, contemporary novel, history & theory of the novel
Publications
“Smaller and Less Beautiful: Refusal Aesthetics in the Contemporary Novel,” Politics/Letters (http://quarterly.politicsslashletters.org/smaller-and-less-beautiful/)
Selected Fellowships and Grants
- Jefferson Trust Grant for “Teaching Writing and Anti-Racism” Project, March 2021
- Lazarus Fellowship, Yale Sustainable Food Program, 2017 – 2018
- Buckner W. Clay Grant from the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, 2016
- Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia English Department, 2016
- Mellon Graduate Teaching Seminar for Excellence in the Humanities Fellowship, 2014-2015
Presentations
- Panel co-organizer and co-chair, “Arts of the Present Classroom: Practice, Pedagogy, Place,” Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Meeting, 2019
- “Looking for the Bodies: Charismatic Characters and Vulnerable Populations," Media Intimacy (Yale Film and Media Studies Conference), February 2017
- “The Return of the Nation in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction," American Conference on Irish Studies, March 2016
- Panel Co-Chair, “The De-Worlding of Irish Studies: Reminders of the Local”
- “Rewiring the Novel: Flat Characters in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah," The Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Meeting, September 2015
- “The Afterlife of the Big House: Instability Becomes Nostalgia," American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, March 2014