About
Dr. Ellen Crowell is Associate Professor of English at Saint Louis University, specializing in Modernist literature and the cultural pre-history of modernism. Her research connects Victorian Aestheticism/Decadence to Modernist writing through figures like Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, and Elizabeth Bowen.
Her 2007 book 'Aristocratic Drag: The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction' explores gender performativity across literary traditions. Current projects examine Wilde's posthumous cultural presence through memorialization practices, fandom, and queer self-fashioning. Publications analyze Wilde's tomb as a site of queer memory and the intersection of sculpture aesthetics with LGBTQ+ history.
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