{"id":261,"date":"2009-06-29T14:39:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T18:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=261"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:39","slug":"medd-jodie","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/medd-jodie\/","title":{"rendered":"Medd, Jodie"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Literary Modernism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sexuality Studies (Queer Theory, Queer Studies)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gender and Feminist Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Queer Literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Memoir and Creative Nonfiction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contemplative Pedagogy &amp; Healing-Centred Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"cross-appointments\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Cross Appointments<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Feminist Institute of Social Transformation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"current-research\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Current Research<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My research and teaching interests have coalesced around the inter-related fields of modernist studies, the history of sexuality, and feminist and queer studies, and have grown to engage with more contemporary writing and cultural concerns. My first monograph,&nbsp;<em>Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism&nbsp;<\/em>(Cambridge UP, 2012), examines how the scandalous suggestion of lesbianism in legal, legislative, national, and artistic realms in England and the United States functioned to mediate a range of cultural and artistic anxieties during and after the Great War. At the same time, I consider how the suggestion of lesbianism evaded specific reference while constituting lesbianism as a crisis of interpretation. Developing from these interests, I edited&nbsp;<em>The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature<\/em>&nbsp;(Cambridge UP, 2015), which focuses on literature in English in a range of historical, geographical, theoretical, and generic contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also published archival-based research on modernist literary production and queer feeling, from friendship to patronage; analyses of contemporary queer fiction, particularly in relation to the modernist past; conceptualizations of queer modernism and temporality; and considerations of the queerness of parenting in relation to queer theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I\u2019ve enjoyed experimenting with form in my own academic writing. This shift in style and form connects with my teaching and interests in memoir and creative nonfiction, particularly in queer feminist decolonial contexts. While loosening my connection to modernist studies, I maintain attachments to authors in the field, including Viriginia Woolf, whose work continues to inform my thinking and writing. I have revived previous interests in queer gender and sexuality and censorship in the early-twentieth century to develop a course on sexuality, anti-gender ideology, censorship, book banning, and attacks on libraries in our current moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My teaching and supervision at both the undergraduate and graduate level includes courses and supervisions related to gender, sexuality, twentieth- and twenty-first-century (queer) writing, and queer theory\/queer studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"honours-and-awards\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>FASS Research Excellence Award (2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cFavourite Faculty Member\u201d (Residence) (2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nominee, Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award (2017, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FASS Teaching Award (2009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nominee, Carleton Employee Recognition Award (2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canada Council for the Arts, Author Residency Program (to host Ivan Coyote as Writer-in-Residence) (2007-08)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award (2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2003-07)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"books\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Books<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/the-cambridge-companion-to-lesbian-literature\/7979E92EDFB509792F334EC43A6EDCA1\"><em>The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp; Ed. Jodie Medd.&nbsp; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/ca\/academic\/subjects\/literature\/english-literature-1900-1945\/lesbian-scandal-and-culture-modernism\"><em>Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"forthcoming-and-recent-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Forthcoming and Recent Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Queerness of Parenting: or (Almost) Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned from Queer Theory.\u201d <em>Domesticity and Queer Theory, <\/em>edited by Jess Shollenberger and Mary Wilson, Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming<strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPosthumous Queer Modernism.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.proxy.library.carleton.ca\/10.4324\/9781351234306\"><em>Contemporary Queer Modernism<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> edited by Melanie Micir, Routledge, 2025, pp. 74-88. (open access)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLoving\/Hating\/Loving Lesbian Modernism,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Interrogating Lesbian Modernism, edited by<\/em> Elizabeth English, Jana Funke, and Sarah Parker, Edinburgh UP, 2023, pp. 31-55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/mod.2022.0039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feeling Modernist Patronage: Edward Marsh, Rupert Brooke, and Modernism\u2019s Intimate Ecologies.<\/a>\u201d&nbsp;<em>Modernism\/Modernity,<\/em> vol. 29, no. 4, 2022, pp. 785-816.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Well of Loneliness,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Global Encyclopedia of LGBTQ History<\/em>, edited by Howard Chiang, et. al. Macmillan, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018I didn\u2019t know there could be such writing\u2019: The Aesthetic Intimacy of E.M. Forster and T.E. Lawrence,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Queer Bloomsbury<\/em>, edited by Madelyn Detloff and Brenda Helt, University of Edinburgh Press, 2016, pp. 258-275.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQueer Fiction in Contemporary Britain.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Blackwell Companion to British Literature, Vol. IV: Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature<\/em>, edited by&nbsp;Heesok Chang, Robert DeMaria, Jr., and Samantha Zacher, Blackwell, John Wiley and Sons, 2014, pp. 424-439.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEncountering the Past in Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing<\/em>, edited by Hugh Stevens, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 167-184.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/10642684-2006-012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Patterns of the Possible\u2019: National Imaginings and Queer Historical (Meta)Fictions in Jamie O\u2019Neill\u2019s&nbsp;<em>At Swim, Two Boys<\/em>.<\/a>\u201d&nbsp;<em>GLQ<\/em> (Gay and Lesbian Quarterly) vol 13, no 1 (2007), pp. 1-31, .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018Seances and Slander\u2019: Radclyffe Hall in 1920.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Sapphic Modernities<\/em>, edited by Laura Doan and Jane Garrity, Palgrave Press, 2006, pp. 201-216.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/23472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cult of the Clitoris: Anatomy of a National Scandal.<\/a>\u201d&nbsp;<em>Modernism\/Modernity, vol<\/em> 9, no.1, January 2002, 21-49.&nbsp;Reprinted in in&nbsp;<em>Sexuality and Identity<\/em>, edited by Leslie J. Moran.&nbsp;International Library of Essays in Law and Society Series.&nbsp;Ashgate Publishing, 2006, pp. 137-170.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"recent-presentations\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recent Presentations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBloomsbury\u2019s Posthumous Queer Temporalities,\u201d Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH.&nbsp; June 5-9, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cModernism\u2019s Queer Temporal Resistance in the Space Between,\u201d Intersections of Resistance in the Space Between (Annual Space Between Conference), University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO. June 7-9, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe queer intimacy of T.E. Lawrence and E.M. Forster,\u201d Queering the Bloomsbury Group Roundtable. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Pasadena, CA. November 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Invited participant, Workshop on \u201cLesbian Studies in Queer Times.\u201d University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. April 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c(Homo)national Capital and Affective Investments: The Queer Posthumous Production of Rupert Brooke.\u201d Sexuality Studies Association Annual Conference, at the Canadian Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences. Ottawa, ON. June 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Invited participant, Radcliffe Institute Workshop on \u201cWriting Lesbianism into History and Representation,\u201d Harvard University, Boston, MA. January, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQueer Modernist Historical (Be)longings.\u201d Modernist Studies Association Conference.&nbsp; University of Nevada, Las Vegas. October 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEdward Marsh: Affective Economies of Modernist Patronage.\u201d&nbsp; The Battle of the Brows, Cultural Distinctions in the Space Between, 1914-1945.&nbsp; McGill University. Montreal, PQ. June 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPatronage and the Posthumous Production of Rupert Brooke.\u201d&nbsp; Modernist Studies Association Conference. Victoria, B.C. November 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPatronage and the Production of Rupert Brooke\u2019s National Body.\u201d Portsmouth Symposium on English Literature. Portsmouth University, UK. May 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"recent-graduate-courses\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recent Graduate Courses<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>ENGL 5610: Queer Historical Fiction and Temporal Re\/Imaginings<br>\nENGL 5608: Reading Virginia Woolf: Then and Now<br>\nENGL 5002: Queer Reading<br>\nENGL 5608: Queer Theory and the Production of Modernist Sexualities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21001,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jodie","cu_people_last_name":"Medd","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-261","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. Honours (Queen\u2019s University), M.A., Ph.D. (Cornell University)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"jodie_medd@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26556,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/261\/revisions\/26556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}