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Gabrielle McIntire

Biography

A specialist in British and American literary modernisms of roughly 1890-1945, with focus on poetry, poetics, psychoanalytic criticism, eco-criticism, and theories of history, memory, desire, and the sacred, McIntire is the author of Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf (Cambridge UP, 2008), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land (Cambridge UP, 2015). Also a creative writer, McIntire鈥檚 poetry has appeared internationally in journals and book collections including The Literary Review of Canada, The A-Line, Van Gogh鈥檚 Ear (Paris), The Cortland Review, Freefall, and Audeamus. Her book, Unbound, was published by McGill-九秀直播 Press in 2021.

McIntire has held several awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), including a Standard Research Grant at Queen鈥檚 University and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto. She has been a Senior Resident at Massey College at the University of Toronto; a Research Associate at Holywell Manor, Balliol College, Oxford; and a resident at the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts. She has also taught at Cornell University and at the T.S. Eliot International Summer School in London, England. She is the recipient of two teaching awards: the W.J. Barnes Award for Distinguished Teaching at Queen鈥檚 University, and the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching at Cornell University.

McIntire sits on the Editorial Boards of the Woolf Studies Annual, The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual, Twentieth-Century Literature, and The A-Line.

Research Interests
  • American and British literary modernisms
  • eco-criticism; theories of memory; theories of the sacred; poetry and poetics
Selected Publications

Unbound

McGill-Queen's University Press
2021

Inspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment. Touching on human frailty, the eternal, and the ecological with a delicate and evocative brush, Unbound enacts an almost prayerful attentiveness to the earth's creatures and landscapes while it offers both mournful and humorous treatments of love and loss. McIntire's finely tuned musical voice - with its incantatory rhythms, rhymes, sound play, and entrancing double meanings - invites us to be courageously open to the unexpected.

The Cambridge Companion to the Wasteland

Cambridge University Press
2015

T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is often considered to be the most important poem written in English in the twentieth century. The poem dramatically shattered old patterns of form and style, proposed a new paradigm for poetry and poetic thought, demanded recognition from all literary quarters, and changed the ways in which it was possible to approach, read, or write poetry. "The Waste Land" helped to define the literary and artistic period known as modernism. This Companion is the first to be dedicated to the work as a whole, offering fifteen new essays by international scholars and covering an extensive range of topics. Written in a style that is at once sophisticated and accessible, these fresh critical perspectives will serve as an invaluable guide for scholars, students, and general readers alike.

Edited by Gabrielle Mclntire 

Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

Cambridge University Press
2008

T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf were almost exact contemporaries, readers and critics of each others' work, and friends for over twenty years. Their writings, though, are rarely paired. Modernism, Memory, and Desire proposes that some striking correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolf's poetic, fictional, critical, and autobiographical texts, particularly in their recurring turn to the language of desire, sensuality, and the body to render memory's processes. The book includes extensive archival research on some mostly unknown bawdy poetry by T. S. Eliot while offering readings of major work by both writers, including "The Waste Land," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Orlando and To the Lighthouse. McIntire juxtaposes Eliot and Woolf with several major modernist thinkers of memory, including Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Walter Benjamin, to offer compelling reconsiderations of the relation between textuality, remembrance and the body in modernist literature.

Additional Academic Publications 

  • Forthcoming. The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf, Modernism and Religion. Co-edited with Jane de Gay. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Forthcoming. "Bloomsbury and Psychoanalysis." History of the Bloomsbury Group. Ed. Derek Ryan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2022. 鈥淰irginia Woolf鈥檚 Agnostic, Visionary Mysticism.鈥 The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion, eds. Suzanne Hobson and Andrew Radford. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • 2021. 鈥淟ove鈥檚 Errors and Effacements: T.S. Eliot and Emily Hale.鈥 T.S. Eliot Studies Annual. Ed. John D. Morgenstern. Liverpool and Clemson, SC: Liverpool University Press and Clemson University Press.
  • 2021. 鈥淰irginia Woolf: Mature Works I, 1924-1927.鈥 The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf  ed. Anne Fernald. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2020. 鈥淟ove鈥檚 Errors and Effacements: T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale.鈥 Time Present: The Newsletter of the International T.S. Eliot Society. Summer, Vol. 101: 6-13.
  • 2018. "History in Transition," Futility and Anarchy: British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940 eds. Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2016. 鈥淢odernism and Bloomsbury Aesthetics,鈥 Virginia Woolf, ed. James Acheson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
  • 2015. 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥 The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land. Cambridge University Press.
  • 2015. 鈥淭he Waste Land as Ecocritique,鈥 The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land. Cambridge University Press.
  • 2015. 鈥淯ncanny Semblables and Serendipitous Publications: T.S. Eliot鈥檚 the Criterion, The Waste Land, and James Joyce鈥檚 Ulysses," 1922: Literature, Culture, Politics, ed. Jean Michel Rabat茅. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2015. 鈥淔eminism and Gender in To the Lighthouse.鈥 The Cambridge Companion to To the Lighthouse, ed. Allison Pease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2014. 鈥淧sychology and Sexuality,鈥 The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Poetry, eds. David Chinitz and Gail McDonald. London: Wiley Blackwell.
  • 2013. 鈥淵ou Can鈥檛 Go Home Again: Ambivalent Nostalgia in T.S. Eliot鈥檚 Poetry,鈥 Modernist Nostalgia, ed. Tammy Clewell. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • 2013. 鈥淣otes Toward Thinking the Sacred in Virginia Woolf鈥檚 To the Lighthouse.鈥 Modern Horizons, Special Issue on 鈥淢odernity, Ideology, and the Novel.鈥 4.1: 1-11.
  • 2012. 鈥淭oward a Narratology of Passing: Epistemology, Race, and Misrecognition in Nella Larsen鈥檚 Passing.鈥 Callaloo: A Journal of African American and African Arts and Letters 35.3: 778-94. 2010.
  • (Reprint) 鈥淭he Women Do Not Travel: Gender, Difference, and Incommensurability in Heart of Darkness.鈥 Heart of Darkness: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. 3rd Ed, ed. Ross Murfin. New York: Bedford/St. Martin鈥檚.
  • 2010. 鈥溾楧oing up Freud鈥: Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, and Getting Dirty: A Response to Elisa Kay Sparks鈥 Review in Virginia Woolf Miscellany 76,鈥 Virginia Woolf Miscellany 77: 16-17.
  • 2005. Heteroglossia, Monologism, and Fascism: Bernard Reads The Waves.鈥 Narrative. 13: 29- 45.
  • 2002. 鈥淭he Women Do Not Travel: Gender, Difference, and Incommensurability in Heart of Darkness.鈥 Modern Fiction Studies. 48: 257-84.
  • 2002. 鈥淎n Unexpected Beginning: Sex, Race, and History in T.S. Eliot鈥檚 Columbo and Bolo Poems.鈥 Modernism/Modernity. 9: 283-301.

Creative Publications 

  • 2019. 鈥淐ringe.鈥 The A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought. 2: 1-2. (Nashville, USA).
  • 2019. 鈥淐ascade.鈥 The A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought. 2: 1-2. (Nashville, USA).
  • 2016. 鈥淯pstairs.鈥 Freefall, XXVI Number 3 (Calgary, Alberta).
  • 2014. 鈥淥n the Rose Garden at UBC.鈥 Audeamus (Toronto, Massey College Press).
  • 2013. 鈥淏loom.鈥 Remembering Colin: A Gathering of Poems for Colin Bernhardt (Wolfville, Nova Scotia).
  • 2012. 鈥淔all.鈥 The Original Van Gogh鈥檚 Ear Anthology (Paris: French Connection Press).
  • 2012. 鈥淕ive.鈥 Literary Review of Canada Vol. 20. No. 5 (Toronto).
  • 2007. 鈥淪peed.鈥 Literary Review of Canada. Vol. 15. No. 5 (Toronto).
  • 2007. 鈥淎 Description of an Approaching Hurricane in Canada.鈥 Scapes (Kingston: Hidden Book Press).
  • 2006. 鈥淥n Being Close to Dying at Age 87.鈥 Van Gogh鈥檚 Ear (Paris: French Connection Press).
  • 2006. 鈥淭he Black-Capped Chickadee.鈥 The Salmon River Watershed: Jewel of Eastern Ontario (Kingston: Friends of the Salmon River Press).
  • 2006. 鈥淪ummer Surprised Us.鈥 Kingston Poets鈥 Gallery. Ed. Elizabeth Greene (Kingston, Artful Codger Press).
  • 2006. 鈥淪hivering Ash on the Edge of Ramsden Park.鈥 Kingston Poets鈥 Gallery. Ed. Elizabeth Greene (Kingston, Artful Codger Press).
  • 2006. 鈥淏reak Through.鈥 Kingston Poets鈥 Gallery. Ed. Elizabeth Greene (Kingston: Artful Codger Press).
  • 2006. 鈥淧salm for Winter.鈥 Small Brushes (Allamuchy, NJ: Adept Press).
  • 2006. 鈥淎t Sea.鈥 The Cortland Review (Online journal, Seattle).
  • 2005. 鈥淭he Task of the Rose Hip.鈥 The Queen鈥檚 Feminist Review (Kingston).
Awards and Recognition
2023-2028: SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Insight Grant
2019: Nominated for W.J. Barnes Award for Distinguished Teaching, Faculty of Arts and Science, Queen鈥檚 University
2010: Banff Centre for the Arts, Writing Studio Fellowship
2008-2012: SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Standard Research Grant
2004: W.J. Barnes Award for Distinguished Teaching, Queen's University
2002-3: SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Post-Doctoral Award, University of Toronto, Supervised by Linda Hutcheon
2002: Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching, Cornell University
Graduate Supervision

鈥淚deology, Production, and Reproduction: Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and H.D.鈥

鈥淢adness, Mental Health, and the Aesthetics of Resilience in Modernist Women鈥檚 Literature鈥

鈥淏alancing Modernism: Eliot, Joyce, and Empathy鈥

Additional Information

An interview/podcast about T.S. Eliot鈥檚 poem, The Waste Land

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