Tutor information
Jurrit Daalder
Jurrit Daalder completed his doctorate on postwar American fiction at Oxford University in 2017, and he is currently a lecturer in American literature at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His most recent publications include chapters in George Saunders: Critical Essays (2017) and The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace (forthcoming 2018). In June 2018, he will take up a one-year visiting fellowship at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
Courses
Some of the most powerful and moving English poetry of the modern period was written during or about the First World War.
In this course we shall study five key novels of the twentieth century - by Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Silko, Morrison and Roth.
In this course we shall study five key novels of the twentieth century - by Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Silko, Morrison and Roth.