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Publications:
  • “Telling a Horror Story, Conscientiously: Representing the Armenian Genocide in Atom Egoyan’s Films,” in Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan, Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell, eds. (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier U P, 2006).
  • “Out of Air: Theorizing the Art Object in Gertrude Stein and Wyndham Lewis” Modernism/Modernity 10:4 (2003) 657-76.
Courses/Seminars:
  • Semiotics of Culture -- Representing Diaspora;

  • Intro to Literary Studies,

  • Honors Rhetoric,

  • Contemporary Poetry with Art and Artifacts

Lisa Siraganian specializes in twentieth-century literature, with a particular focus on American poetry.  Her interests include theories and examples of modernism, postmodernism, aesthetics and diaspora culture.  She has published articles on Gertrude Stein’s and Wyndham Lewis’s views of art and art objects in Modernism/Modernity, and on Atom Egoyan’s films in Diaspora.  Currently, Siraganian is completing her first book, Breathing Freely: The Object of Art and the Subject of Politics in American Modernism.

   
Lisa Siraganian
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
 
Office: Dallas Hall, room 15
Office Hours: T 3:30-4:30, TH 12:30-1:30
Phone: 214-768-2982
Email: lsiragan@smu.edu
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