Jane Garrity
· Associate ProfessorUniversity of Colorado Boulder · English
Active 1994–2025
About
Jane Garrity is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and has been teaching at CU since 1994. Her scholarly focus includes early twentieth-century British literature and culture, with research interests spanning modernism, feminism, queer theory and literature, British imperialism, 20th-century experimental women’s literature, and material culture studies. Garrity is the author of 'Stepdaughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary' (2003) and co-editor of 'Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture' (2006). She has also contributed to academic journals and edited volumes, including works on queer space and fashion’s borders. Her ongoing research involves completing a monograph titled 'Fashioning Bloomsbury.' In addition to her research, Garrity has been recognized for her teaching excellence with the Boulder Faculty Assembly’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001. She has served as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies from 2013 to 2020 and is currently the principal investigator on a three-year NEH grant focused on integrating humanities and data science, specifically exploring humanities core competencies as data acumen.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Computer Science
- History
- Political Science
- Pedagogy
- Criminology
- Gender studies
- Psychoanalysis
- Mathematics education
- Data science
- Law
- Archaeology
Selected publications
Chapter 6 Cotton, Race, Embodiment and ‘the thing itself’ in Woolf
Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2025-04-24
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCotton, Race, Embodiment and ‘the thing itself’ in Woolf
Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2025-05-31
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingWhile many Woolf critics have grappled with the author’s notion of consciousness and its relationship to authorship in ‘A Sketch of the Past’, less attention has been paid to the imbricated links between embodiment, cotton, race and the difficult-to-parse concept of ‘the thing itself’. Garrity argues that Woolf’s invocation of ‘the thing itself’ in ‘Sketch’ and elsewhere exposes the limits of Woolf's embrace of materiality and illustrates the pervasiveness of imperialism as a lingering ideology – particularly how objects are culturally and racially saturated.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2025-10-09
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingClassical : “Queer Devils” and “Beastly Indulgences” in Mary Butts’s Unborn Gods
2024-01-01 · 1 citations
other1st authorCorrespondingResponse Reimagining Mary Butts’s Queer Imaginary Letters as Artist Book
2024-01-01
other1st authorCorresponding‘Patti Smith, Bloomsbury, and the Afterlives of Modernist Objects’
Modernist Cultures · 2022-05-01
article1st authorCorrespondingThis essay focuses on the photographs of Patti Smith that were shown at the Dulwich Picture Gallery's exhibition titled ‘Legacy: Photographs by Vanessa Bell and Patti Smith’ (London, February 8 to June 4, 2017). It tracks the parallel resonances between Smith and Bloomsbury with respect to ideas concerning the inseparability of materiality, emotion, and the body. The essay argues that Smith's photographs of ‘Bloomsbury objects’ convey that the immaterial can only be expressed through the material, a paradox that is key to understanding how such objects function as spiritualized relics that both highlight and supersede the dominion of the everyday.
English Language Notes · 2022 · 2 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Sociology
- Political Science
Abstract The introduction traces the long history of fashion’s movement across cultural, national, and political borders. After brief case studies of early twentieth-century French and Spanish styles imagining fashion as an engine of transnational amity, the introduction highlights how fashion navigates some of the most troubled borders of recent years, including the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and racial violence. Fashion forces viewers and consumers to choose sides, whether through national identification or through recognition of the long history of black and brown bodies producing fashionable objects. To advance the global history of fashion, the introduction briefly discusses the work of designers Rawan Maki (Bahrain), Laurence Leenaert (Belgium), and Kim Jones (Great Britain), examining how each upends gender, race, class, or fashion binaries, and analyzes how LVMH and Uniqlo, brands at opposite ends of the contemporary style spectrum, underline the very different ways in which fashion traverses the globe in the twenty-first century. The introduction concludes with the hope that this issue will raise questions about fashion’s articulation of the relation among the local, the national, and the global, as well as about the human experience of interacting with the fashion industry in one national context while living in a globalized world.
INTEGRATING THE HUMANITIES INTO DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION
Statistics Education Research Journal · 2022 · 11 citations
- Computer Science
- Mathematics education
- Computer Science
Despite growing calls to develop data science students’ ethical awareness and expand human-centered approaches to data science education, introductory courses in the field remain largely technical. A new interdisciplinary data science program aims to merge STEM and humanities perspectives starting at the very beginning of the data science curriculum. Existing literature suggests that humanities integration can make STEM courses more appealing to a wider range of students, including women and students of color, and enhance student learning of essential concepts and foundational reasoning skills, such as those collectively known as data acumen. Cultivating students’ data acumen requires a more inclusive vision of how the knowledge and insights generated through computational methods and statistical analysis relates to other ways of knowing.
The Haunting of Mary Hutchinson
University Press of Florida eBooks · 2020-01-28
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThis chapter argues that earlier assessments of Mary Hutchinson’s writing have tended to conflate her status as a feminine arbiter of taste with her work, seeing the two as similarly irrational and slight. Such assessments have contributed to the pervasive assumption that Hutchinson is not a writer of substance and they have been instrumental in facilitating her obscurity and associating her work with a conservative concept of femininity. Instead, this chapter situates Hutchinson’s writing in relation to the Bloomsbury group’s interest in art and argues that her complex articulation of early twentieth-century femininity in <italic>Fugitive Pieces</italic> (1927) has been unjustly trivialized because of its association with the realm of fashion. Drawing from extensive archival research, this chapter shows how Hutchinson repeatedly puts femininity and modernity into conversation as she interrogates what it would mean if feminine phenomena were given a central place in our cultural analysis of modernity.
The Haunting of Mary Hutchinson
University Press of Florida eBooks · 2020-01-06
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 3 shared
Laura Doan
- 1 shared
Celia Marshik
- 1 shared
Elizabeth A. Constantine
University of Iowa
- 1 shared
Megan Hammes
University of Iowa
- 1 shared
Lynn M. Teesch
University of Iowa
- 1 shared
David Glimp
University of Colorado System
- 1 shared
Eileen Barrett
- 1 shared
Eric A. Vance
University of Colorado Boulder
Education
Ph.D., English
University of California, Berkeley
Awards & honors
- Boulder Faculty Assembly’s Excellence in Teaching Award (200…
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