Alysia Garrison's research and teaching is focused around nineteenth and twentieth-century British, Irish, Caribbean, and postcolonial literature, with an emphasis on transatlanticism, comparative modernities, long-durational historiography and critical theory.  

This year she is co-teaching English 139, Special Topics in Literature and teaching English 10C, Literatures in English 1900-Present in the Department of English. Previously, she taught Introduction to Literature and served as Teaching Assistant for upper-division courses such as The Irish Literary Renaissance, The 20th-Century British Novel, and Introduction to Critical Theory (with discussion sections). Last spring she spent a quarter in London as T.A. for the UC Davis Education Abroad Program.  

Alysia's research has benefited from her participation in many conferences and research programs across the United States and Europe.  She has given papers in the United States, England, Ireland and Jamaica, and at the annual meetings of the Modern Language Association, the Modernist Studies Association, and the American Conference for Irish Studies.  She has been a fellow in residence at The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell, The Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory at UC Irvine, The Subaltern-Popular Dissertation Workshop at UC Santa Barbara and the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Umbria, Italy.  

Over her graduate career, she has published articles on the novel Trilogy of Samuel Beckett, the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, and the poetry of Romanticist John Clare, subjects that reflect her diffuse interests. Alysia is currently writing her dissertation on Atlantic colonial modernity in 19th and 20th century literature.  

Awards

Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship, UC Davis, 2009-2010

Dissertation Research Fellowship, UC Davis, 2008

Office of Graduate Studies Travel Award, UC Davis, 2008

Center for History, Society and Culture Research Grant, UC Davis, 2008

Consortium for Women and Research Travel Award, UC Davis, 2008

Friends of English Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, UC Davis, 2006

Blackwell Literature Compass Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2005

David Noel Miller Scholarship Essay Prize, UC Davis, 2004

Women's and Gender Studies Prize, Macalester College, 1997