B.A., Duke University
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Anna Ioanes’ research and teaching focus broadly on 20th- and 21st-century American literature, transatlantic modernist and postmodernist literature, cultural studies, multimodal rhetoric and composition, and writing studies. She has published scholarship about writers including Toni Morrison, Kathy Acker, and Olivia Laing, research tracing the development of the literary genre autotheory, and research focusing on the ethics of depicting violence in literature, art, and culture. This scholarship has been published in American Literature, Women’s Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the Minnesota Review, and JML: Journal of Modern Literature. With Douglas Dowland, she co-edited Violent Feelings, a special double-issue of the journal LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. She is also a contributing editor at ASAP/Review, the open-access publication of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Before joining the faculty at the University of St. Francis, she held a Marion L. Brittain postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Tech. Her book, Painful Forms: Aesthetic Violence in American Literature and Art, 1945-2001, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.
In the English department, Dr. Ioanes teaches courses in American literature, literary and critical theory, and writing studies. Her courses in the English department include: Free Speech and American Literature 1914-1964 (ENGL 300/347), American Literature 1965-Present (ENGL 348), Modernist Interrogations of Form (ENGL 363), Critical Theory (ENGL 400), Writing in the Disciplines (ENGL 317), Technical Writing (ENGL 316), and Teaching Composition (ENGL 318). She also teaches general education courses in first-year writing (ENGL 111 and ACAF 120) as well as graduate courses in the REAL program: Composition Studies I: Theory (ENGM 512) and Multimodal Composition (ENGM 514).
