Debora VAN DURME

Lic. (Ghent, 2003), Ba Philosophy (Leuven, 2004), M.St. English (Oxford, 2005)

Doctoral Researcher FWO 2005-2010; English Literature Assistant

• Office: Room 130.024, Blandijnberg 2 (3rd floor)
• Tel: 32-9-264-7912
• Office hours: by appointment
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• Modernist poetry
• Literature and music
• Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, Amy Lowell, Edith Sitwell

• "Amphions of Modernism: Music in/& the Poetry of Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Mina Loy and Edith Sitwell"
  Supervisor: Prof. dr. Marysa Demoor

Publications in International  Peer-Reviewed Journals

• with Sarah Posman and Marysa Demoor (eds.). Special Issue "Melodies  and Modernisms", accepted for publication in Texas Studies in  Literature and Language, to appear in 2011. 
• "Conjuring Melodies from Arid Air: Mina Loy and Pound?s Melopoeia",  The Cambridge Quarterly 37.3, Sept 2008, pp. 324-348 
• "Edith Sitwell's Carnivalesque Song: Façade and Popular Music",  Mosaic 41.2, June 2008, pp. 93-110

Teaching

• Ba1: US History and Culture (part of "Geschiedenis en Cultuur van de  Angelsaksische Landen)
• Ba1: Engelse Letterkunde I
• Ba2: Engelse Letterkunde II: Historisch overzicht: oefeningen