Rajeev S. Patke. <i>Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies.</i>

Shannon Winston is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University's Writing Center. She completed her dissertation, Interrupted Visions: Seeing and Writing the Mediterranean of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Her academic work examines the role of visuality, especially hindered and constrained visual tropes, in shaping literature from the French, Moroccan, Italian, and Algerian Mediterranean. Her secondary interests include global modernisms, theories of perception, and affect studies.  She is also a poet and published her first volume of poetry, Threads Give Way, in 2010.