Alice Staveley
Senior Lecturer of English
B.A., University of Toronto, English
D.Phil., University of Oxford, English

Alice Staveley teaches a range of courses on British modernism, contemporary British and Canadian fiction, and Virginia Woolf. She has won the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching (2016-2017) and directs the Honors Program in English and the Digital Humanities Minor. She has taught in the Oxford tutorial system, the History and Literature concentration at Harvard University, and Stanford's Introduction to the Humanities Program (2001-2006). Research interests include: modernism; narratology; book and periodical history; women and the professions; feminist and cultural theory; and digital humanities. Her current book project examines Virginia Woolf's life as a publisher. Select publications include: Woolf’s short fictional feminist narratology; Woolf’s European reception; photography in Three Guineas; modernist marketing; and transnational archival feminisms. She co-founded and co-directs of The Modernist Archives Publishing Project, a critical digital archive of documents related to modernist publishing supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), and the Roberta Bowman Denning Digital Fund for Humanities and Technologies. http://modernistarchives.com Recent digital humanities research involves quantitative analysis of modernist book-sales records.
Publications
Office Hours
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Research Interests
Specialization(s)
British Literature-Modernism
British Literature-20th Century
British Literature-Prose
British Literature-Contemporary
Courses
Spring 2022-2023
Virginia Woolf in the Age of #MeToo
Autumn 2022-2023
Honors Seminar: Critical Approaches to Literature
Spring 2021-2022
Writing and Gender in the Age of Disruption: Transatlantic Women Writers 1920-1940
Spring 2019-2020
Virginia Woolf in the Age of #MeToo (FEMGEN 125V)
Contemporary British Fiction: History, Language, Place (ENGLISH 44B)
Winter 2018-2019
Virginia Woolf in the Age of #MeToo (FEMGEN 125V)
Autumn 2018-2019
Facts and Fictions: British Writing in the 1930s
Spring 2017-2018
Facts and Fictions: British Writing in the 1930s and the Rise of Fascism