Aimee Armande Wilson

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  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Associate Editor, Feminist Modernist Studies

Contact Info

325 Blake Hall

Education —

Ph.D. in English, Florida State University, 2014
M.A. in English, University of of North Carolina-Wilmington, 2008
B.A. in Journalism, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2004
Program in Language, Society, and Cultural Studies, University of Sevilla, 2002

Research —

Wilson is the author of Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939 (SUNY 2023) and Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control (Bloomsbury 2016). She is currently working on a digital archive of an early twentieth-century magazine called the Birth Control Review.

Research interests:

  • Narrative and storytelling
  • Reproductive justice
  • Modernist literature
  • Queer pregnancy
  • History of medicine, especially reproduction, eugenics, and sexology
  • Digital humanities

Teaching —

Teaching interests:

  • Narrative and storytelling
  • Female, non-binary, and queer authors
  • Reproductive justice
  • Modernism
  • Feminist and queer theory
  • Digital humanities

Selected Publications —

Books

Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939. SUNY Press, 2023.

Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Articles and Chapters

*If you would like to cite any of the articles or chapters below, please do not use the open access versions because the page numbers are incorrect. Instead, email aawilson@ku.edu for the correct version, free of charge. 

“It’s My Moment! Archives and Conspiracy Theories in Post-Roe America.”Modernism/modernity Print Plus, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

“We Need a Movement, Not Just a Moment: Modernism and Me Too.” Modernism/modernity PrintPlus special issue on “#MeToo, Eliot, & Modernist Scholarship,” edited by Megan Quigley, vol. 5, cycle 2, 2020.

“Was Ezra Pound the ‘midwife’ of The Waste Land? Surgeons, midwives, and ‘Sage Homme.’” Feminist Modernist Studies. Vol. 2, no. 2, 2019, pp. 212-31. Open access version. 

“Writing.” Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st Century Feminist Theory, Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 181–92. Open access version. 

Guest Editor, Special Issue on ‘Harassment’. American Book Review, vol. 39, no. 4, 2018. Open access version.

“Pregnancy in Faulkner’s Artist Novels: Masculinity, Sexology, and Creativity in Interwar America.” Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945., vol. 14, 2018, pp. 1–31.

“A Century of Reading Time: From Modernist Novels to Contemporary Comics.” Popular Modernism and Its Legacies, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, pp. 231–45. Open access version. 

“Southern Mother, Lethal Fetus; Or How Birth Control Makes a Modernist Out of Flannery O’Connor.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, vol. 47, no. 3, 2014, pp. 407–30. Open access version. 

“Modernism, Monsters, and Margaret Sanger.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 59, no. 2, 2013, pp. 440–60. Open access version.