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Irina Strout

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Dr Irina Strout

strout@nsuok.edu

  • Associate Professor
    English

Office Location

  • Tahlequah
    Wilson Hall 365
    (918) 444-4506

Bio

My name is Dr. Strout and I am an Associate Professor of English at NSU. I teach a variety of freshmen and upper division writing and literature courses such as Composition I and II, Introduction to Literature, Literature surveys (Brit Lit I and II), Women Literature and others.

Education:

  • PhD, English , University of Tulsa , Summa cum laude, 2009
  • MA, English , University of Tulsa , 2003
  • BA, English, German, linguistics, pedagogy , Moscow State Linguistic University , Summa cum laude, 1999
I am interested in various representations of body and disability/disease in fiction, as well as gender studies, masculinity studies, war fiction
19th century British and Russian fiction, British Romanticism, Fairy tales, Folklore and Myth, Gender Studies, Women literature, Gothic fiction

Intellectual Content:

  • Poetry Criticism. John Keats. Gale Literature Criticism (Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-Revised), Discovery, Published, December, 2020
  • Society of Men or the Danger of Femme Fatale in the Victorian fiction of Imperialism. (Journal Article, Academic Journal), Integration, Published, August, 2020
  • The Victorian Male Body. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. (Book Review), Discovery, Published, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2019

Presentations:

  • Gendered space and female confinement in the sensation novels of 1860s. - NAVSA - St. Petersburg, FL - October 2018
  • Mapping the Society of Exclusion: Women Outcasts in Edith Whartons The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence. - SCMLA - Little Rock, AR - 2019

Courses Taught:

  • MASTERPIECES OF WORLD FICTION - ENGL 4773 - Summer 2020
  • WOMEN WRITERS - ENGL 5423 - Summer 2020
  • SEMINAR IN ENGLISH STUDIES II - ENGL 5643 - Spring 2020