Carrie Rohman

Teaching and research interests: Environmental Humanities, including animal studies, modernism, performance, critical theory, aesthetics, and posthumanism; Critical University Studies.

Recent Publications (complete list here):

Books

FORTHCOMING:  Broken Record: Narratives of Gendered Abuse in Academia. Co-edited with Mary K. Holland and Carlyn Ferrari. Afterword by Sara Ahmed. Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2025.

Choreographies of the Living: Bioaesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Selected Papers of the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Kristin Czarnecki and Carrie Rohman. Clemson: Clemson Digital Press, 2011.

Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal. New York: Columbia UP, 2009.

Selected Articles and Chapters

“‘Its own weird anima’”: Lawrence ‘Unpaints’ the Human.” Reading D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene. Ed. Terry Gifford. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025.

“‘A Picture Lives with the Life you put into it’: Animality and Lawrence’s Paintings.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence. Ed. Annalice Grise. London: Bloomsbury, 2024: pp. 327-344.

“The Solar Plexus and Animalistic Power in D. H. Lawrence and Isadora Duncan.” Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism.  Ed. Katherine Ebury, Bridget English, and Matthew Fogarty, Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2023: pp. 67-84.

“Making an Impression Deeply: Authorizing Animals in D. H. Lawrence,” Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture. Ed. Alex Goody and Saskia McCracken. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2023: pp. 75-90.

“Wolves Like to Wander Around: Nomadic, Distal, and Unfurling Forces in Maclear and Arsenault’s Virginia Wolf.” Comparative Critical Studies, “Reading Braidotti / Reading Woolf,” vol. 19, no. 2, (June 2022): pp. 185-211.

“Woolf, The University, and All Sorts of Brutality.” Modernism/modernity. Orientations Forum (March 2022).

“Prying Open our Critical Awareness:  Reading Animality in Literature and the Arts.” Society and Animals: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies. Ed. Margo DeMello. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021: pp. 412-416.

“Modernist Animals and Bioaesthetics.” Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature. Ed. Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, John Miller. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2020: pp. 385-396.

“Severed Tongues: Silencing Intellectual Women.” Modernism/modernity. 5.2: #MeToo and Modernism Cluster (October 2020).

“Ecology.” D. H. Lawrence in Context. Ed. Andrew Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018: pp. 252-262.

“Curly Tails and Flying Dogs: Structures of Affect in Nick Abadzis’s Laika.” Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives. Ed. David Herman. London: Bloomsbury, 2018: pp. 119-138.

“Nude Vibrations: Isadora Duncan’s Creatural Aesthetic.” Modernism/modernity. 2.3 (September 2017).

“Animals.” Literature Now: Key Terms and Methods for Literary History. Ed. Sascha Bru, Ben de Bruyn, Michel Delville. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016: pp. 98-109.

“Effacing the Human: Rachel Rosenthal, Rats and Shared Creative Agency.” Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices. Ed. Lourdes Orozco and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015: pp. 168-186.

“No Higher Life: Bio-aesthetics in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.” Modern Fiction Studies. Special Issue: “Animal Worlds in Modern Fiction,” vol. 60, no. 3, September, 2014: pp. 562-578.

“Dancing with Deleuze: Modernism and the Imperceptible Animal.” Understanding Deleuze: Understanding Modernism. Ed. S. E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin, Laci Mattison. Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism. London: Bloomsbury, 2014: pp. 169-181.

“A Hoard of Floating Monkeys: Creativity and Inhuman Becomings in Woolf’s Nurse Lugton Story.” Deleuze Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, November, 2013: pp. 515-536.

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