Ella Ophir

B.A., Hons.(Simon Fraser), M.A. & Ph.D. (Queen's)

Assistant Professor

Office: Arts 411A
Phone: 966-2056
Email: e.ophir@usask.ca

Research

Ella Ophir specializes in British and American modernism. Her published essays have addressed questions of cultural politics, cultural authority, and the theory of the novel. She is currently studying modernist conceptions of the relationship between language and subjectivity, in part by examining representations of inarticulacy in fiction. The project aims to elucidate both the philosophical assumptions and the social stakes involved in all estimations of linguistic power and limitation.

Publications

“Sincerity and Self-Revelation in Joseph Conrad.” Modern Language Review. Forthcoming 2011.

“Laura Riding and Robert Graves: A Survey of Modernist Poetry.” Entry in The Literary Encyclopedia. <http://www.litencyc.com> (2009).

“Laura Riding – Collected Poems.” Entry in The Literary Encyclopedia. <http://www.litencyc.com> (2007).

"Romantic Reverence and Modernist Representation: Vision, Power, and the Shattered Form of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Twentieth-Century Literature (2007).

"Towards a Pitiless Fiction: Abstraction, Comedy, and Modernist Antihumanism." Modern Fiction Studies 52.1 (2006): 92-120.

"Modernist Fiction and the 'accumulation of unrecorded life." Modernist Cultures 2.1 (2006).

"The Laura Riding Question: Modernism, Poetry, and Truth." Modern Language Quarterly 66.1 (2005): 85-114.

"'The Mode of Common Dreams': Owl's Clover and the Social Imagination." The Wallace Stevens Journal (2000): 37-52.