Title
Professor of English
English
Environmental Studies
Film, Television and Interactive Media
Expertise
Contemporary literature. Film and media studies. Global studies. Environmental Studies. Social/political theory.
Profile
Professor Irr teaches courses on literature (mainly US), film and culture since 1900. Her current book projects investigate the 21st-century political novel and new developments in eco-fiction.
Degrees
Duke University, Ph.D.
Duke University, M.A.
Swarthmore College, B.A.
Awards and Honors
Fulbright Lectureship in Czech Republic (2003)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellowship (1999)
Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholarship (1994 - 1995)
Canadian Embassy Canadian Studies Graduate Student Fellowship (1993)
Courses Taught
| ENG | 8a | Twenty-First-Century American Literature |
| ENG | 11b | Fiction: A Basic Course |
| ENG | 17a | Alternative and Underground Journalism |
| ENG | 28a | Nature Writing |
| ENG | 30b | New American Cinema of the 1960s and 70s |
| ENG | 50b | American Independent Film |
| ENG | 60a | Documentary Prose and Film |
| ENG | 60b | The Films of Disney |
| ENG | 177b | The Rock and Roll Novel |
| ENG | 187a | American Fiction since 1945 |
| ENG | 187b | American Writers and World Affairs |
| ENG | 200a | Approaches to Literary and Cultural Studies |
| ENG | 217a | Writing Twentieth-Century Revolutions |
| ENG | 237b | The Worlds of Twentieth-Century American Fiction |
Scholarship
