Pamela L. Caughie

Pamela L. Caughie is a professor and graduate program director in the English Department at Loyola University of Chicago. She served as president of the Modernist Studies Association from 2009-2010. Caughie received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 1987. She is also a highly acclaimed Virginia Woolf scholar, and in 2010 was granted a National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $175,000 to continue her work on an electronic edition of Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Through Loyola University of Chicago's digital humanities center Caughie has worked on a digital archive for Lili Elbe, a well-known figure in transgender history. The website was launched in July 2019.

Teaching interests

Caughie's teaching interests include modern British and American literature, African-American literature and theory, modernism, postmodernism, feminist theory, women's studies and pedagogy.

Books

• Man Into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition, Bloomsbury (February 2020). Co-edited with Sabine Meyer.
• Passing and Pedagogy: The Dynamics of Responsibility, University of Illinois Press (June 29, 1999)
• Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Routledge (December 1, 1999)

Recent publications

• "Modernism, Gender and Passing", edited and introduced, in Gender in Modernism: New Geographies; Complex Intersections. General Ed., Bonnie Kime Scott. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006.
• "Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Approaches to Virginia Woolf", in The Palgrave Guide to Woolf Studies, Ed. Anna Snaith. New York: Palgrave, 2006.
• "Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse", in The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, Ed. Kevin Dettmar and David Bradshaw. New York: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
• "Passing as Modernism", in Modernism/modernity 12.3 (September 2005): 385-406.
• "Professional Identity Politics", in Feminist Studies 29 (Winter 2003).
• "Teaching 'Woman': A Cultural Criticism Approach to Teaching D. H. Lawrence", in Approaches to Teaching D. H. Lawrence, Ed. Elizabeth Sargent and Garry Watson. New York: MLA, 2001.
• "Returning to the Lighthouse: A Postmodern Approach", in Approaches to Teaching Woolf's "To the Lighthouse", Ed. Beth Rigel Daugherty and Mary Beth Pringle. New York: MLA, 2001: 47-53.

External links

• Modernist Studies Association
• Loyola University of Chicago
• University of Virginia