Courses Taught
ENGL 2571: Contemporary Literature
ENGL 3502: British Literature II
ENGL 4292: Literature into Film
ENGL 5564: Studies in British Literature After 1900: British Literature of the 1950s and 1960s
ENGL 5580: The Novel
Publications
"Letters from London: Mollie Panter-Downes Brings World War to The New Yorker." Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. Forthcoming December 2021.
‘“Now you’re one of us’: Surveying Postwar Berlin in Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair.” International Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artifact, special issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. Vol. 13. 2017. http://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol13_2017_derdiger.
“To Drag Out a Rough Poetry: Colin MacInnes and the New Brutalism in Postwar Britain.” Modern Fiction Studies. 62.1. Spring 2016. 53-69.
‘“We Shall Never Make a Home of This’: Elizabeth Taylor’s Postwar Reconstruction Fiction.” Long Shadows: The Second World War in British Literature and Film, 1943 to the Present. Ed. Petra Rau. Evanston: Northwestern UP. 2016.
(With Phyllis Lassner), “Domestic Gothic, the Global Primitive, and Gender Relations in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September and The House in Paris.” Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive. Eds. Claire A. Culleton and Maria McGarrity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 195-214.