{"id":15,"date":"2024-08-16T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2024-08-16T21:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:08:42","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Noreen O\u2019Connor<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a professor of English, and teaches courses on literature, writing, and film at King\u2019s College. She advises\u00a0<em>The Crown<\/em>, the King\u2019s College student newspaper, and hosts a program on Radio King\u2019s College. She has a Ph.D. in British literature and an M.Phil. in American literature from The George Washington University; an M.A. in literature and a certificate in the teaching of writing from San Francisco State University; and a B.A. in English from the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focuses on anglophone modernism, transnational literature, writing and gender, medical narrative, the novel, print culture, film studies, and media studies. Her NEH Summer Institute grant has supported her ongoing research interest in modernist print culture, and her Fulbright-Hayes research in Uganda fostered the study of East African anglophone women\u2019s literature. She has also co-led short term study abroad courses to India focusing on anglophone Indian literature. She serves the larger community through her volunteer work as the steering committee coordinator of the Peace and Justice Center of Wilkes-Barre and as vice president of the Pennsylvania AAUP Caucus. Currently president of the International Elizabeth von Arnim Society, Noreen was a founding member of the society. She co-organized the International Women Writers and Comedy Conference, held online in 2022, and the joint Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield Conference, held in 2017 at the Huntington Library in California. Her most recent publication,\u00a0<em>Elizabeth von Arnim: The Unexpected Modernist<\/em>\u00a0will be published in 2025 by the Edinburgh University Press. In addition, she has scholarly publications on Edith Wharton, Elizabeth von Arnim, Katherine Mansfield, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and Santa Claus.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noreen O\u2019Connor\u00a0is a professor of English, and teaches courses on literature, writing, and film at King\u2019s College. She advises\u00a0The Crown, the King\u2019s College student newspaper, and hosts a program on Radio King\u2019s College. She has a Ph.D. in British literature and an M.Phil. in American literature from The George Washington University; an M.A. in literature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreenoconnor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}