Molly Hall
Molly Volanth Hall’s teaching concentrates on ecocriticism
and British modernism. Hailing originally from the Boston area, she earned her
MA from the University of New Hampshire, has an MEd and is currently a doctoral
candidate at University of Rhode Island. Her teaching and research interests
include the environmental humanities, trauma studies, war narratives, landscape
representation and the relationship between nation, identity and literature in
the 20th century, especially within the modernist period and its aesthetic
afterlives. Her current project investigates the impact of modernist
environmental aesthetics in World War I Britain and their effect on ecological
epistemologies as they shifted during the 1920s and ’30s. She has taught both
writing and literature classes that frame disciplinary inquiries from an
environmental humanities perspective—especially interrogations of the
perception of home in both its ecological and social senses. Her work on
home-place also extends to pedagogic public scholarly inquiries into the topic
of “homecoming” and war, most notably in the form of a RICH-funded public
humanities event that she co-organized. Her research appears in the
journal
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (ISLE),
and she has co-edited a forthcoming collection of scholarly essays titled
Affective
Materialities: Reorienting the Body in
Modernist Literature (University
Press of Florida, 2019).
Fall 2018 Courses
- LAS-E348-01 Remaking The World: Anglo-american Modernisms
Spring 2019 Courses
- LAS-E101-02 First-year Literature Seminar
- LAS-E101-02 First-year Literature Seminar
- Molly Hall
- Lecturer
- mhall04@risd.edu
- Molly Hall’s CV
- M.ED, Cambridge College - Massachusetts
- MA, University of New Hampshire