Louise Kane, Ph.D.
Biography
Louise Kane is Assistant Professor of Global Modernisms. Her research is interdisciplinary and comparative in its focus on the literary, historical, and sociological contexts of transnational modernism, particularly in relation to little magazines and periodicals. Her work has been published in The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Literature and History, and The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945. Recent publications explore representations of shell shock and trauma in WWI-era medical journals and reading world cinema periodicals through digital humanities approaches. She is Director of the externally-funded "Literature the Consoler: Modernism, Medical Humanities, and Mental Health" research project and an Editor of The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies. Dr. Kane teaches courses in world literature, literary modernism, modern Asian fiction, literature of the Global South, and literary theory. She is interested in supervising students working on lesser-studied modernist figures and movements, such as Sui Sin Far, Borges's ultraísmo, or Japanese dōjinshi.
Education
- Ph.D. in English Literature from De Montfort University
- B.A. in English Language and Literature from University of Oxford
Research Interests
World Literature 1890-Present; Literary Modernism; Little Magazines and Periodical Studies; Global Anglophone Literatures; Interdisciplinary Approaches; Asian American Literature; British Literature 1900-1950; Caribbean Modernism; Digital Humanities; Medical Humanities; Holocaust Studies/ Literature; Translation Studies
Awards
- Literature the Consoler: Modernism, Medical Humanities, and Mental Health Research Project (funded by the Florida Humanities Council and NEH, 2019-20).
- Professor of the Year Award (Apr. 2018) Golden Key International Honour Society (CCGA Chapter)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded PhD Studentship, De Montfort University (2010-13)
- Shelley Mills Essay Prize for Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford (2009)
- Wade-White Scholarship, University of Oxford (2007)
- Dorothy Whitelock Prize for Old English Studies, University of Oxford (2007)
- Oxford Opportunity Bursary, University of Oxford (2006-9)
Courses
No courses found for Spring 2026.
No courses found for Fall 2025.
No courses found for Summer 2025.
| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 19552 | LIT3835 | Trans Modern Chinese Novels | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable |
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| 93068 | ENG3831 | Intro to Editorial Professions | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable |
Prerequisite: ENC 1102 with a 'C' (2.0) or higher. Applies as:
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| 92000 | LIT4244 | World Authors | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable |
| Prerequisite: ENG 3014 with a 'C' (2.0) or higher. Applies as:
This course introduces you to the Literature of the Global South. Produced in countries including Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean, literature of the global south is highly engaged in politics, transformation, and ideas of globalization. To understand some of these themes, we focus on two key female writers from the period: Una Marson (Jamaica) and Anita Brenner (Mexico). Despite their existence as two twentieth-century writers hailing from vastly different cultural and geographical backgrounds, both women writers share common themes, ideas, and experimental styles, their work offering ways of understanding the complex political and social changes that reshaped the world in the early to mid-1900s. We’ll also touch on works by authors like Claude McKay, Louise Bennett, Winifred Holmes, Rabindranath Tagore, and Arturo Schomburg, as they offer new ways of framing and contextualizing Bennett’s and Brenner’s oeuvres. |
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| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Session | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 60966 | ENG3831 | Intro to Editorial Professions | Web-Based (W) | B | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable |
| Prerequisite: ENC 1102 with a 'C' (2.0) or higher. Can apply as:
This course is designed to provide an overview of different editorial professions. Students will learn the difference between general editing and proofreading, editing for scholarly journals, editing fiction, and editing nonfiction, such as website ‘copy’ (this means text) and copy in other digital formats. They will gain an understanding of the different roles of editors and copyeditors, as well as the difference between copyediting and proofreading. They will also learn how to work with a variety of different style guides and learn the basics of grammar and mechanics for copyediting. My follow-up course, ENG4832, offers you more hands-on experience in applying the introductory knowledge and skills you learn here. |
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| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 20252 | ENG3831 | Intro to Editorial Professions | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable |
This course is designed to provide an overview of different editorial professions. Students will learn the difference between general editing and proofreading, editing for scholarly journals, editing fiction, and editing nonfiction, such as website ‘copy’ (this means text) and copy in other digital formats. They will gain an understanding of the different roles of editors and copyeditors, as well as the difference between copyediting and proofreading. They will also learn how to work with a variety of different style guides (e.g., APA, Chicago, MLA) and learn the basics of grammar and mechanics for copyediting. My follow-up course, ENG4832, offers you more hands-on experience in applying the introductory knowledge and skills you learn here. |
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| 11499 | LIT6216 | Issues in Literary Study | In Person (P) | W 06:00 PM - 08:50 PM | Unavailable |
Wednesday, 6 – 8:50 Things that go ‘bump’ in the night, disappearances, bizarre coincidences, doppelgangers, cults, cryptograms, and treasure hunts… these are some of the unexpected and unexplained things we’ll be covering on this course. Using various critical approaches, you will be encouraged to develop your own interpretations and explanations in relation to texts that explore and expose a myriad of strange goings on and curiously questionable phenomena. From the Moberly-Jourdain Incident, immortalized in Frances Lamont and Elizabeth Morison’s An Adventure (1911), to Daphne du Maurier’s “Don’t Look Now” (1979), the course will introduce you to the unexpected and the unexplained in interdisciplinary contexts while providing a solid grounding in literary theory that will serve you well as you proceed through your graduate studies. |
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| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 92635 | LIT3714 | Literary Modernism | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable |
| This course explores how the ‘little’ magazines—small, experimental poetry and creative magazines published in the early twentieth century—produced literary modernism. Studying a range of periodicals from the early 20th century, we examine how figures like Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Claude McKay, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound used little or "small" magazines as expressive, alternative forms of publication through which they shared their unique forms of literary modernism. We begin by looking at American and European magazines before expanding our focus to places like Japan, the Caribbean, Russia, and other diverse global locations. These readings ask us to consider how magazines were key agents in the development of expatriate literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and transnational forms of literary modernism that pose important questions about nationhood, gender, race, and identity. For your final assignment, you'll make your own magazine | |||||
| 81791 | LIT3833 | Modern Asian Literature | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable |
This course introduces you to Asian literature published between 1850 to the present day. We explore a wide range of texts from Japan, China, and other parts of the Far East. The texts are provocative and sometimes controversial, touching on themes of love, relationships, trauma, and political unrest. Texts you will study include examples of the Japanese "I novel" genre, some migration narratives, and postcolonial novels, diaries, and biographies recording responses to World War II. Assignments are designed with career-specific skills in mind and include a 'design your own lecture' module, an annotated bibliography which will introduce you to Undergraduate Research, video responses, and a research essay. |
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| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Session | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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| 61361 | ENG3831 | Intro to Editorial Professions | Web-Based (W) | B | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable |
This course is designed to provide an overview of different editorial professions. Students will learn the difference between general editing and proofreading, editing for scholarly journals, editing fiction, and editing nonfiction, such as website ‘copy’ (this means text) and copy in other digital formats. They will gain an understanding of the different roles of editors and copyeditors, as well as the difference between copyediting and proofreading. They will also learn how to work with a variety of different style guides (e.g., APA, Chicago, MLA) and learn the basics of grammar and mechanics for copyediting. My follow-up course, ENG4832, offers you more hands-on experience in applying the introductory knowledge and skills you learn here. |
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Updated: Feb 11, 2022