Hartwick college

Professor Wesley specializes in American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, women's poetry, and literary theory. Her book Refusal and Transgression in Joyce Carol Oates' Fiction  was published in 1993, followed in 1998  by Secret Journeys: The Trope of the Woman Traveler in American Literature. Her most recent book is Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men, from the University of Virginia Press.  In addition, she is interested in the intersections between cognitive and neurological studies and literature.  She teaches in her  established specialties as well as in such areas of increasing interest as African American literature and the interdisciplinary study of medicine and literature .

Dr. Wesley recently published "The Remembered Future: Neuro-Cognitive Identity in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw" in College Literature 31.2 (Spring 2004 ). College Literature is a quarterly journal of scholarly criticism dedicated to serving the needs of college and university teachers by providing them with access to innovative ways of studying and teaching new bodies of literature and experiencing old literatures in new ways.  More...

Email: wesleym@hartwick.edu
Office: Clark 235
Phone: 607-431-4901