Tutor information
Tara Stubbs
Dr Tara Stubbs is an Associate Professor in English Literature and Creative Writing at OUDCE, and a Fellow of Kellogg College Oxford. For 2017–2020 she was the Academic Programme Director of the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford. Her first book was American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910–1955 (2013), which was re-issued in paperback in 2017. Her interests include American and Irish literature, modernism and poetry, and she has published widely in these fields. In 2017 she co-edited the essay collection Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture (2017), and her second monograph, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020, was The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion.
Courses
Come and hear how the idea of the 'Epic' (and the 'mock-Epic') in English-language poetry have developed since Beowulf, and continue to have relevance today.
What is a short story? One hundred years after the publication of some of the most important short stories of the twentieth century, this day school will offer some answers, and will discuss why the form was so important for modernist writers to perfect.