Randi Saloman
Visting Assistant Professor
- Degrees
- Yale University
Ph.D. - Johns Hopkins University
M.A. - Columbia University
B.A.
Bio
Randi Saloman received her Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 2006. She comes to Cornell from Wesleyan University, where she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the College of Letters. Her research interests include twentieth-century British and American literature, the essay, and the history of the novel. Her current book project, drawn from her dissertation, explores the relationship of the modern essay to the modern novel, and the ways in which writers of the period—specifically, Virginia Woolf—used the essay to think about, and, ultimately, to create, the modern novel. She is also working on a second project, a transatlantic study of hotels in modern literature, which will extend from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Modernism
- The History of the Novel
- Genre Studies
- The Essay
- Post-Colonial and Anglophone Literature
- The Edwardians
Current Projects
- Essayism and the Modern Novel: Re-Reading Virginia Woolf (book manuscript)
- Hotels and Modern Literature (work-in-progress)