Victoria Papa is assistant professor of English at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Her research examines the intersection of cultural trauma and experimental aesthetics in 20th- and 21st-century American literature. Her book project, “Minoritarian Modernisms: Quotidian Trauma and the Aesthetics of Survival,” reveals how modernists—who wrote about race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability from the periphery of a literary movement—make use of the aesthetic possibilities of literature to enact life-affirming counternarratives of recognition and resiliency.
Victoria Papa
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