Ann L Ardis

Ann L Ardis
Dean
Professor
British modernism; technologies of culture; periodical press history; gender
Ann Ardis (PhD, University of Virginia, 1988) is a distinguished scholar and academic leader. She is known for her interdisciplinary research on late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British literature and culture. That work focused on the formation of the modernist canon, and the voices, particularly women’s voices, that were often left out of the traditional definitions and literary forms of modernism. More recent work has connected the study of new technologies for literary and cultural production to the recovery of more expansive views of modernist literary and periodical press history. Her books include New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism (Rutgers, 1990), Modernism and Cultural Conflict: 1880-1922 (Cambridge, 2002; reprinted, 2008), and the co-edited collections Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms (Palgrave, 2008), Women’s Experience of Modernity (Johns Hopkins, 2002), and Virginia Woolf Turning the Centuries (Pace, 2000). She recently completed a term of service as co-editor of Modernism/modernity, the flagship journal of the Modernist Studies Association.
Before taking up leadership of Mason's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dr. Ardis served at the University of Delaware, first as an associate dean and deputy dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, and then as the senior vice provost for graduate and professional education. She was the founding director of Delaware’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, which supports collaborative multidisciplinary research and teaching. She brings this emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration, and on public scholarship, to her leadership of the college at Mason.
Selected Publications
Editor, “Mediamorphosis: Print Culture and Transatlantic/Transnational Public Spheres,” Modernism/modernity 19.3 (September 2012). vii + 173 pp.
Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms. Co-edited with Patrick Collier. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xi + 259 pp.
Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Reprinted in paper, 2008. ix + 187 pp.
Women’s Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945. Co-edited with Leslie Lewis. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. vii + 312 pp.
Virginia Woolf: Turning the Centuries. Selected Papers from the Ninth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Co-edited with Bonnie Kime Scott. Pace University Press, 2000. viii + 356 pp.
New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1990. x + 217 pp.