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Mandy Berry Assistant Professor CAS | Literature

Contact
CAS | Literature
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW 212
Degrees
MA & PhD, Duke University

Favorite Spot on Campus
The Dav!
Bio
Amanda Berry’s articles and essays include “desire vomit emptiness: Cymbeline’s Marriage Time,” Shakesqueer (ed. Madhavi Menon 2010); “The Altar of the Dead,” The Critical Companion to Henry James , (eds. Haralson and Johnson 2009); “Some of My Best Friends are Romanticists: Shelley and the Queer Project in Romanticism,” Romanticism on the Net (2004-5), and “Edmund Burke: Public Eye” in Romantic Generations (2001). In 2012, Professor Berry’s current research on Batman, masculinity, and the culture of comics and graphic novels was the subject of several articles, interviews with national NPR affiliates, a live online discussion, and a live broadcast interview on WAMU’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show. Professor Berry teaches courses in British Literature and in Cultural Studies including courses on the graphic novel. She also teaches the CORE Habit of Mind Course "Power, Discourse, and Pop Culture" and courses on trauma narrative, television, and literary theory.
See Also
Literature Department
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Teaching

Spring 2025

  • LIT-281 Power, Discourse & Pop Culture

  • LIT-281 Power, Discourse & Pop Culture

  • LIT-367 Topics in World Literature: Politics of Trauma Narrative

Fall 2025

  • LIT-252 Survey of Literary Theory

  • LIT-281 Power, Discourse & Pop Culture

  • LIT-281 Power, Discourse & Pop Culture