Aimee Armande Wilson
- Associate Professor
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Associate Editor, Feminist Modernist Studies
Contact Info
Education —
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
- Modernist literature
- Reproductive justice
- Queer pregnancy
- Cultural studies
- History of medicine, especially reproduction, eugenics, and sexology
- Digital humanities
Teaching —
Teaching interests:
- Narrative and storytelling
- Female, non-binary, and queer authors
- Reproductive justice
- Feminist and queer theory
- Cultural studies
- 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
“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.
“Writing.” Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st Century Feminist Theory, Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 181–92.
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.
“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.
“Modernism, Monsters, and Margaret Sanger.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 59, no. 2, 2013, pp. 440–60.
Selected Presentations —
“‘Instrument of Reproduction’: Reproductive Justice and Angelina Weld Grimké’s ‘The Closing Door.’” Space Between Society, Dayton, OH, 2024.
“Public Humanities Outreach on Reproductive Topics; Or, Using the Archives to Fight Conspiracy Theories.” Space Between Society, Canyon, TX, 2023. Winner of the 2023 Space Between Essay Prize.
“Travel, Travail, and Labor in Nightwood.” Space Between Society, Cleveland, OH, 2022.
“Pregnancy, Kinship, and Motion.” Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, 2021.
“Brown Skin and ‘that draft-horse neck’: Indexing Queerness with Race in My Ántonia.” Space Between Society, Richmond, VA, 2021.
“Archival Threads: Weaving Narratives of Reproduction.” Feminist InterModernist Association, Chicago, 2020.
“Modernist Criticism in the Me Too Era.” Modernist Studies Association, Toronto, 2019.
“Queer Pregnancy in Cather’s My Ántonia.” Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, Brookings, SD, 2019.
“Midwifery and Ezra Pound.” Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. Greeley, CO, 2018.
“Faulkner and Sexology.” American Literature Association. San Francisco, 2018.
Time, Space, and ‘the new Vita’. International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Reading, UK, 2017.
Faulkner’s ‘incomplete gestations’: Masculinity and Pregnancy in If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem. Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. Oxford, MS, 2017.