Professor Templeton’s research interests include transatlantic modernism, the intersections of authorship and gender in early twentieth century literature, and textual studies. She has published essays on the gender dynamics of authorial collaboration in William Carlos Williams’s long poem Paterson as well as on Ezra Pound’s relationship with early twentieth-century pianist and composer, George Antheil. In addition, she has written about The Waste Land, The Sound and the Fury, The Sun Also Rises, and W. B. Yeats’s esoteric text, A Vision. She has attended the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo Ireland, and more recently, she returned to Ireland to participate in a summer seminar sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities dedicated to a study of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Dr. Templeton earned her B.A. and M.A. from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and she has comes to Converse College from Los Angeles, California where she earned her Ph. D. in American Literature and twentieth century British and Irish literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. While at UCLA, she served as the English Coordinator for the Center for Community Learning; she was elected to the University Collegium of Teaching Fellows, and she was awarded the English Department award for pedagogical excellence. She enjoys teaching American literature as well as twentieth-century literature in its many forms and varieties. Some of the classes that she has offered include: twentieth century British and Anglophone fiction, Popular American literature, twentieth-century poetry, American Literature from 1865-Present, New York modernism, “Bad Girls and the Boys Who Love Them,” and the “Americans in Paris.” In the works are classes on F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, 20th century American fiction, Irish literature, and eco-literature and criticism. |
Dr. Erin E. Templeton