Faculty and Staff

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

• Fall 2026
• Summer 2026
• Spring 2026