Janine Utell

Janine Utell is an award-winning writer and editor. Her areas of interest include modernist studies, multimodal narrative (including film and comics), life writing, and the intersections among gender, sexuality, affect, intimacy, and ethics.

She is the author of four books: Howard Cruse (University Press of Mississippi, 2023), Literary Couples and 20th-Century Life Writing: Narrative and Intimacy (Bloomsbury, 2019), Engagements with Narrative (Routledge, 2015) and James Joyce and the Revolt of Love: Marriage, Adultery, Desire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). She is the editor of the volumes Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English (Modern Language Association, 2021) and The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). These collections feature both established scholars and exciting new voices.

In addition to her writing, Janine is the Editor of “Orientations,” a forum dedicated to feminist and queer modernisms published on Modernism/modernity’s PrintPlus platform. She is a member of the Advisory Boards for Woolf Studies Annual and the Orlando Project, and is frequently invited to facilitate workshops and panels focused on writing, peer review, and publishing. She is currently Past President of the Modernist Studies Association, and served as the Editor of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 from 2015 to 2020.

Janine has written on topics related to higher education, the humanities, writing and productivity, and leadership and mentoring (all with frequent references to her obsessions with cooking and baseball) as a former contributor to the University of Venus blog at Inside Higher Ed, an occasional contributor to Hybrid Pedagogy, and as a guest blogger at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Until 2021, she was Professor and Chair of English and Creative Writing at Widener University in Chester, PA, and is now professor emerita. She divides her time between her home in the Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia and her job at the Modern Language Association in New York City.

Books

Howard Cruse

Literary Couples and 20th-Century Life Writing: Narrative and Intimacy

Engagements with Narrative

James Joyce and the Revolt of Love: Marriage, Adultery, Desire