Dr Catherine Gander
Biography
Research Interests
Books
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2013 | Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: the Poetics of Connection.
Catherine Gander (2013) Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: the Poetics of Connection. UK and US: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] |
Edited Books
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2022 | Accepted by publisher: The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts
Catherine Gander (Ed.). (2022) Accepted by publisher: The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts UK and US: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] |
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2016 | Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices
Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland (Ed.). (2016) Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices UK and US: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
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2020 | '‘Black and White Landscapes: Topographies of Disorientation in the Works of Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine''
Catherine Gander (2020) '‘Black and White Landscapes: Topographies of Disorientation in the Works of Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine''. Journal of American Studies, 53 (3):517-540 [DOI] [Details] |
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2018 | 'Poetry as embodied experience: the pragmatist aesthetics of Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry'
Gander C. (2018) 'Poetry as embodied experience: the pragmatist aesthetics of Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry'. Textual Practice, :1-25 [DOI] [full-text] [Details] |
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2018 | '‘Re-reading Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry’'
Catherine Gander (2018) '‘Re-reading Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry’'. Textual Practice, 32 (7):1097-1102 [DOI] [full-text] [Details] |
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2013 | 'The American Imagetext Special Issue'
Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland (2013) 'The American Imagetext Special Issue'. European Journal of American Culture, 32 (2) [full-text] [Details] |
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2013 | '‘Facing the Fact: Word and Image in Muriel Rukeyser’s “Worlds Alongside”’'
Catherine Gander (2013) '‘Facing the Fact: Word and Image in Muriel Rukeyser’s “Worlds Alongside”’'. JNT-Journal of Narrative Theory, 42 (3):288-328 [full-text] [Details] |
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2013 | 'Review essay: Touching Photographs by Margaret Olin'
Catherine Gander (2013) 'Review essay: Touching Photographs by Margaret Olin'. European Journal of American Culture, 32 (3):205-208 [Details] |
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2011 | '‘The Senses of Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead’'
Catherine Gander (2011) '‘The Senses of Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead’'. European Journal of American Culture, 30 (3):175-194 [full-text] [Details] |
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2010 | 'Muriel Rukeyser, America, and the “Melville Revival”'
Catherine Gander (2010) 'Muriel Rukeyser, America, and the “Melville Revival”'. Journal of American Studies, 44 (4):759-775 [full-text] [Details] |
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2010 | 'Review essay: Peter Conn, The American 1930s, A Literary History'
Catherine Gander (2010) 'Review essay: Peter Conn, The American 1930s, A Literary History'. Journal of American Studies, 44 (2):466-468 [Details] |
Book Chapters
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | 'DeLillo and Time'
Catherine Gander (2021) 'DeLillo and Time' In: Jesse Kavadlo (eds). Don DeLillo in Context. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
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2018 | ''The Art of Being Out of Time in Don DeLillo's Point Omega''
Catherine Gander (2018) ''The Art of Being Out of Time in Don DeLillo's Point Omega'' In: Katherine Da Cunha Lewin and Kiron Ward (eds). Contemporary Critical Perspectives on Don DeLillo. UK and US: Bloomsbury Academic. [Details] |
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2016 | '‘“Twenty-six things at once”: Pragmatic perspectives on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings’'
Catherine Gander (2016) '‘“Twenty-six things at once”: Pragmatic perspectives on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings’' In: Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland (eds). Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices. UK and US: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
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2016 | '‘To fasten words again to visible – and invisible – things’'
Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland (2016) '‘To fasten words again to visible – and invisible – things’' In: Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland (eds). Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices. UK and US: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
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2016 | '‘The idea, the machine and the art: word and image in the twenty-first century’'
Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland (2016) '‘The idea, the machine and the art: word and image in the twenty-first century’' In: Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland (eds). Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices. UK and US: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
Other Journals
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | 'Singing in Dark Times'
Catherine Gander (2019) 'Singing in Dark Times' Poetry Ireland Review, (129) :35-40. [Details] |
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2014 | '‘Accords of Components Whose End is Truth’'
Catherine Gander (2014) '‘Accords of Components Whose End is Truth’' The Wolf magazine for poetry, 30 :71-81. [Details] |
Invited Lectures
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | An Aesthetics of Displacement: Lecture and Response to IMMA exhibition, Doris Salcedo, Acts of Mourning.
Catherine Gander (2019) An Aesthetics of Displacement: Lecture and Response to IMMA exhibition, Doris Salcedo, Acts of Mourning. Invited Lectures [Details] |
Conference Contributions
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | ‘From there. To here. Gestures of orientation in the landscapes of Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine'.
Catherine Gander (2019) ‘From there. To here. Gestures of orientation in the landscapes of Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine'. [Oral Presentation], Gestures: Writing that moves between, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester , 15-FEB-19 - 16-FEB-19 [Details] |
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2019 | Topographies of disorientation in the work of Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine.
Catherine Gander (2019) Topographies of disorientation in the work of Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine. [Invited Oral Presentation], Contemporary Literature: Politics and Aesthetics in Crisis, Queen's University Belfast [Details] |
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2017 | ‘Claudia Rankine’s curatorial poetics of witness’, part of a panel organised by Gander and Peat.
Catherine Gander (2017) ‘Claudia Rankine’s curatorial poetics of witness’, part of a panel organised by Gander and Peat. [Oral Presentation], MSA annual conference, Amsterdam , 10-AUG-17 - 13-AUG-17 [Details] |
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2017 | ‘Seeing what happens from here: the ethics of (re)inscribing the visual in Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine’.
Catherine Gander (2017) ‘Seeing what happens from here: the ethics of (re)inscribing the visual in Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine’. [Oral Presentation], ALA annual convention, Boston, USA , 25-MAY-17 - 28-MAY-17 [Details] |
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2017 | Between no longer and not yet, there's still life: art and time in Don DeLillo's late fiction.
Catherine Gander (2017) Between no longer and not yet, there's still life: art and time in Don DeLillo's late fiction. [Keynote Address], Trying things out in America, Cambridge Faculty of English symposium, Cambridge University Faculty of English , 13-MAY-17 [Details] |
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2016 | ‘(Re)Considering Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry.
Catherine Gander (2016) ‘(Re)Considering Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry. [Invited Oral Presentation], MLA Annual convention, Austin, Texas , 07-JAN-16 - 10-JAN-16 [Details] |
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2016 | The physiology of the nervous system and the processes of the imagination: ekphrasis and artful language in William Carlos Williams's Spring and All.
Catherine Gander (2016) The physiology of the nervous system and the processes of the imagination: ekphrasis and artful language in William Carlos Williams's Spring and All. [Oral Presentation], ICLA annual conference, University of Vienna , 21-JUL-16 - 27-JUL-16 [Details] |
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2016 | ‘Between “no longer and not yet”: art and time in Don DeLillo’s post-9/11 fiction’.
Catherine Gander (2016) ‘Between “no longer and not yet”: art and time in Don DeLillo’s post-9/11 fiction’. [Oral Presentation], Don DeLillo: Fiction Rescues History, Université Paris Diderot & Sorbonne , 18-FEB-16 - 20-FEB-16 [Details] |
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2016 | ‘“Twenty-six things at once”: Pragmatic perspectives on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings’.
Catherine Gander (2016) ‘“Twenty-six things at once”: Pragmatic perspectives on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings’. [Invited Oral Presentation], Special Relationships: American Artists and their Collaborators, Tate Britain museum [Details] |
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2016 | ‘SAMOesthetics? Basquiat, the integrated body, and the extended mind’. Panel organiser and presenter: Negotiating the Seen and the Felt: where American Art meets American Writing.
Catherine Gander (2016) ‘SAMOesthetics? Basquiat, the integrated body, and the extended mind’. Panel organiser and presenter: Negotiating the Seen and the Felt: where American Art meets American Writing. [Oral Presentation], EAAS Biennial conference, Constanta, Romania , 22-APR-16 - 25-APR-16 [Details] |
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2014 | Panel at American Literature Assoc. conference.
Catherine Gander (2014) Panel at American Literature Assoc. conference. [Chaired Session], Muriel Rukeyser and Other Writers, ALA, Washington DC, USA , 22-MAY-14 [Details] |
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2013 | ‘“The physiology of the nervous system and the processes of the imagination”: ekphrasis and artful language in William Carlos Williams’ Spring and All’.
Catherine Gander (2013) ‘“The physiology of the nervous system and the processes of the imagination”: ekphrasis and artful language in William Carlos Williams’ Spring and All’. [Oral Presentation], Aesthetics and Naturalism, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico , 21-AUG-13 - 23-AUG-13 [Details] |
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2012 | ‘The still life and death of images: the ethical aesthetic in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man’.
Catherine Gander (2012) ‘The still life and death of images: the ethical aesthetic in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man’. [Oral Presentation], BAAS Annual conference, University of Manchester , 12-APR-12 - 15-APR-12 [Details] |
Article
Year | Publication | |
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2015 | ‘Michael Hanna: Short Films about Learning’.
Catherine Gander (2015) ‘Michael Hanna: Short Films about Learning’. Article [Details] |
Edited Journal Issue
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | Textual Practice Special Issue: Muriel Rukeyser's THE LIFE OF POETRY.
Catherine Gander (2018) Textual Practice Special Issue: Muriel Rukeyser's THE LIFE OF POETRY. Edited Journal Issue [Details] |
Co-edited Journal Issue
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2013 | The European Journal of American Culture.
Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland (2013) The European Journal of American Culture. Co-edited Journal Issue [Details] |
Invited papers
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | ‘Using a public-facing blog for formative and summative assessment’: Presentation at ‘Teaching and Learning Conference: Harnessing Change to Improve Student Learning’, Queen's University Belfast.
Catherine Gander (2016) ‘Using a public-facing blog for formative and summative assessment’: Presentation at ‘Teaching and Learning Conference: Harnessing Change to Improve Student Learning’, Queen's University Belfast. Invited papers [Details] |
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2015 | Post-45, University of York.
Catherine Gander (2015) Post-45, University of York. Invited papers [Details] |
Invited Seminars
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Topographies of disorientation in the work of Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine (Trinity College Dublin).
Catherine Gander (2019) Topographies of disorientation in the work of Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine (Trinity College Dublin). Invited Seminars [Details] |
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2015 | ‘“Twenty-six things at once”: Pragmatic perspectives on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings’.
Catherine Gander (2015) ‘“Twenty-six things at once”: Pragmatic perspectives on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings’. Invited Seminars [Details] |
Seminar
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Poetry in Times of Crisis: A reading and discussion with Erika Meitner and Wayne Miller.
Organiser and discussant: Catherine Gander (2019) Poetry in Times of Crisis: A reading and discussion with Erika Meitner and Wayne Miller. Boston College, Dublin: Seminar [Details] |
Conference Hosted
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Leonard Cohen: An Interdisciplinary Conference.
Catherine Gander, Philipp Rosemann, Thomas O'Connor, Laura Watson (2020) Leonard Cohen: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Maynooth University: Conference Hosted [Details] |
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2020 | Counter-narratives and Hidden Histories.
Lead organiser: Catherine Gander. David Conlon, Catherine Leen, JoAnne Mancini (2020) Counter-narratives and Hidden Histories. Maynooth University: Conference Hosted [Details] |
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2016 | Queer Visions of Home.
Catherine Gander and Steffi Lehner (2016) Queer Visions of Home. Belfast Exposed: Conference Hosted [Details] |
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2016 | Joint conference of British and Irish Associations for American Studies.
Catherine Gander, Philip McGowan, Andrew Pepper (2016) Joint conference of British and Irish Associations for American Studies. Queen's University Belfast: Conference Hosted [Details] |
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2011 | The American Imagetext.
Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland (2011) The American Imagetext. University of East Anglia, UK: Conference Hosted [Details] |
Discussion
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Racism and Media.
Gavan Titley and Catherine Gander (2019) Racism and Media. Maynooth University: Discussion [Details] |
Media
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | An Aesthetics of Displacement.
Catherine Gander (2019) An Aesthetics of Displacement. Media [Details] |
Blog
Year | Publication | |
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2014 | Muriel Rukeyser and Other Writers.
Catherine Gander (2014) Muriel Rukeyser and Other Writers. USA: Blog [Details] |
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2013 | Crisis, hope, and the life of poetry.
Catherine Gander (2013) Crisis, hope, and the life of poetry. USA: Blog [Details] |
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2013 | On the centenary of Muriel Rukeyser’s birth: the lives of a poet.
Catherine Gander (2013) On the centenary of Muriel Rukeyser’s birth: the lives of a poet. USA: Blog [Details] |
Honours and Awards
Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
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2013 | IAAS Book Prize | Irish Association for American Studies | |
2015 | Innovation Award (£98,000): co-investigator on 'LGBTQ Visions of Peace in a Society Emerging from Conflict' | AHRC and PaCCS | |
2019 | Conference fund: IAAS2020 | Maynooth University research development |
Professional Associations
Association | Function | From / To | |
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Irish Association for American Studies | Chair | 13-APR-19 / | |
Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive | Board of Directors | / | |
Evental Aesthetics | Editorial Board | 01-AUG-13 / | |
British Association of American Studies | Member | / | |
Modern Language Association | Member | / | |
American Literature Association | Member | / | |
Modernist Studies Association | Member | / |
Committees
Committee | Function | From / To | |
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English Department Teaching and Learning Committee | Chair | 2018 / 2019 | |
IAAS Prizes committee | Member | 2013 / 2015 | |
Leonard Cohen: An Interdisciplinary conference | Member | 2018 / 2020 | |
IAAS 50th Anniversary conference | Chair | 2019 / 2020 | |
Faculty Research Committee | Secretary | 2019 / | |
English Department Research Committee | Member | 2019 / |
Employment
Employer | Position | From / To | |
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Queen's University Belfast | Lecturer | 01-FEB-13 / 01-SEP-17 |
Education
Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
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2014 | Queen's University Belfast | Postgraduate Cert. | Higher Education Teaching | |
2009 | King's College London | PhD | English |
Languages
Language | Reading | Writing | Speaking | |
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Italian | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
Consultancy
Client | Description | |
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Dublin Business School | ||
Dublin Business School |
Outreach Activities
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Talks at events: Poetry Ireland. Diversity in poetry and criticism publishing: consulting and facilitating: Poetry Ireland |
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Public talks alongside exhibitions: IMMA |
Reviews
Journal | Role | |
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Mosaic | Reviewer | |
Modernism/Modernity | Reviewer | |
Comparative Critical Studies | Reviewer | |
Textual Practice | Reviewer | |
Journal Of American Studies | Reviewer |