Monika Gehlawat

Assistant Professor of English, Director of Graduate Studies

monika.gehlawat@usm.edu

Monika Gehlawat received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, where she studied 20th century literature and art. Her current book manuscript, Boom: The New York City Flaneur and Postwar American Literature and Art, reflects her long-standing interest to work in the interdisciplinary mode. While her most recent work focuses on the relationship between contemporary visual art and literature, she has also published articles on Walter Benjamin, Cubist painting, and Modernist writers, as well as emerging painters and conceptual artists. She teaches courses on contemporary literature, 20th century poetry and painting, the modern short story, and aesthetics.

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