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Dr. Annarose Steinke

Associate Professor
(308) 865-8936
THMH 202E
Department of English
Research focus areas: Literature, especially modernist literature (c. 1900s - 1940s), religion in literature, women in literature, and poetry, modernist to contemporary

Areas of Expertise

  • English
  • Literature
  • Poetry

Education

  • Ph.D., English. University of New Mexico, 2015. 
  • M.A., English. University of Connecticut, 2006.
  • B.A., English. Barnard College, 2004.

Research Interests

  • Modernist Poetry and Poetics
  • Religion in Modernist Literature
  • Medicine and the Body in Modernist Literature
  • Women and Modernism

Publications

  • "Distraction and Attention in T. S. Eliot's Ash-Wednesday." Renascence 77.4 (Fall 2025), pages forthcoming.
  • “A ‘Peculiarly American’ Sense in T. S. Eliot’s ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent.’” ANQ 37.3 (2024), 395-401. 
  • “‘Parsimonious / Presentations’: Mina Loy’s Crisis of (Christian) Representation.”Christianity & Literature 69.4 (December 2020), 493-510. 
  • Review of Jewel Spears Brooker, T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Christianity & Literature 69.3 (September 2020), 471-475.  
  • “T. S. Eliot,” for “Pound and Eliot.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 2017. Duke University Press, 2019. 
  • “Centennial Focus: Eliot in 1918: Exhausted Anticipation.” Time Present: The Newsletter of the International T. S. Eliot Society. Fall 2018. 
  • “Centennial Focus: Eliot in 1918: Contemporary Critic.” Time Present: The Newsletter of the International T. S. Eliot Society. Summer 2018.
  • Review of Matt Foley, Haunting Modernisms: Ghostly Aesthetics, Mourning, and Spectral Resistance Fantasies in Literary Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Time Present: The Newsletter of the International T. S. Eliot Society. Summer 2018.  
  • “T. S. Eliot,” for “Pound and Eliot.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 2016. Duke University Press, 2018.    
  • “Eliot in 1918: Everywhere a Foreigner,” Time Present: The Newsletter of the T. S. Eliot Society, March 2018.
  • “T. S. Eliot,” for “Pound and Eliot,” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 2015. Duke University Press, 2017. 
  • “Hyde, Robin.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge Publishing, 2015. 
  • “‘Following the Fashion’: Women, Work and Class Construction in East Lynne.” Women and Work: The Labors of Self-Fashioning. Ed. Christine Leiran Mower and Susanne Weil. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 302-318.

Courses Taught

  • English 899: Special Topics: Faith and Belief in Modern British and American Literature
  • English 895: Directed Readings in Flannery O'Connor
  • English 884: Colloquium: British Literature: 1700-Present
  • English 882A: Contemporary British and Commonwealth Literature
  • English 881P: Modern British and Commonwealth Literature
  • English 854A: Modern American Literature
  • English 832: Directed Readings for World Literature, Emphasis on Post-Colonialism
  • English 806 / 406: Principles of Literary Criticism
  • English 469: Seminar in Modernism
  • English 436: Critical Writing Professionalism
  • English 362B: Survey of British Literature II
  • English 352A: Survey of U. S. Literature I
  • English 260: Introduction to Literature: Images of Women in Literature
  • English 253: Introduction to Literature: Non-Western Civilization
  • English 251: Introduction to Literature: American Literature
  • English 218: Literature and Language of Medicine and Caring
  • English 102: Academic Writing and Research
  • English 101: Introduction to Academic Writing