Faculty Member, English
Associate Professor of English
College of Arts and Sciences
About
My current research agenda focuses on the relationships among narrative, postmodern ethics, and the erotic. Works in progress include essays on adultery and narrative in the texts of Elizabeth Smart and George Barker, sex and shame in Jean Rhys, and intertextuality and intimacy in Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.
I have also recently completed a study of adultery in the work of James Joyce called "James Joyce and the Revolt of Love: Marriage, Adultery, Desire." My next projects will be an examination of biographies of marriage from a generic perspective through a lens of the philosophy of erotic love; and a collection of essays (co-edited with Michael Cotsell of University of Delaware) on the poetics of the erotic in modernism.
Previous articles on Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and poetry of the First World War have appeared in Journal of Modern Literature, The Space Between, James Joyce Quarterly, College Literature, and Feminist Teacher.
Areas of teaching expertise are in British and Postcolonial Literature (Victorian to Present), as well as academic writing from a genre/postprocess approach.
In addition I am the Associate Editor of The CEA Forum -- the online journal devoted to teaching and learning for the College English Association.
I am also the Co-Founder of the NY/PHL Finnegans Wake Reading Group, and run a series of book groups for the Delaware County Public Library system.
Contact Information
http://www2.widener.edu/~jmutell
Widener University
Humanities Division
Chester, PA
