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Dr. Bonnie Roos is a Professor of English and Research Director at the Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities at West Texas A&M University. She holds a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz, M.A.s from the University of Oregon in Art History and Comparative Literature, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on transatlantic modernisms, postcolonial literatures, and gender studies, with a particular interest in James Joyce and environmental politics.
Key publications include Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West (Texas A&M Press, 2022), co-authored with Amy Von Lintel, which won the 2023 Outstanding Academic Titles award. She has also authored Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: The World and the Politics of Peace (Bloomsbury, 2014) and co-edited volumes such as Behind the Masks of Modernism (2016) and Postcolonial Green (2010).
Her articles span analyses of Joyce’s Ulysses, postcolonial ecocriticism, and modernist global narratives. Roos teaches courses on world literature, postcolonial studies, and transatlantic modernisms, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches.
Awarded for her work on Abstract Expressionism in the American West, her research bridges art and literature, exploring how regional contexts reshape artistic and literary movements. She currently serves as Texas A&M System Coordinator for the Mandarin Language Program, expanding her academic contributions beyond the humanities.
