Robert L. Powell

Robert's work is focused on American literature and theories of reading. Their dissertation concerns the nature of boredom as it relates to epistemology of the unseen - traced through experimental writings of queer women (Marianne Moore; Gertrude Stein; Djuna Barnes) during the age of high American modernism. Their research specialties include 20th century American literature; speculative genres; the philosophy and history of science; film; theory surrounding games and play-often within the context of phenomenology and psychoanalysis.