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Benjamin Hagen
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Associate Professor Department of English
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Modernist fiction/poetry
Literary criticism/theory
Literary criticism/theory
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Benjamin Hagen is editor of Woolf Studies Annual and author of "The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence" (2020, Clemson UP).
Modern fiction and poetry. Literary theory and criticism. Bible as literature.
Pedagogy. Love. Reading. Age. Literary form. Authors/Groups: Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury Group, D.H. Lawrence, Olive Moore, Wallace Stevens.
- Ph D, English, University of Rhode Island, 2012
- MA, English, Northern Michigan University, 2007
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- Hagen, Benjamin. Relational Pedagogy in D.H. Lawrence’s 1909 Croydon Sketches., Editors Michael Bell and Holly A. Laird, 205-224. Vol. 31, Iss. 2 D. H. Lawrence Studies (Korea), 2023.
- Hagen, Benjamin. The Pedagogical Coherence of "The Fly in the Ointment"., Editors Susan Reid, 136-139. Vol. 6, Iss. 3 Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 2023.
- Hagen, Benjamin. Woolfian Love in Aggregate: Posthuman—Queer—Feminist. Comparative Critical Studies, 2022.
- Hagen, Benjamin. “…she was learning to love moments": Notes on Hortense Spillers, Virginia Woolf, and the Feminine., Editors Shilo McGiff and Valérie Favre, 35-38. Iss. 99 Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Portmanteau Woolf), 2022.
- Hagen, Benjamin. Review of The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study by Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan. Vol. 6, Iss. 2 Modernism/modernity Print Plus, 2021.
- Hagen, Benjamin. No Children, Only Tasks: Some Reflections on Cruel Pedagogies. Vol. 5, Iss. 4 Modernism/modernity Print Plus, 2021.
- Hagen, Benjamin. The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Clemson University Press, 2020. (DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv153k6df)
- Hagen, Benjamin. Religious Eroticism and Pedagogy in Olive Moore’s Celestial Seraglio: A Tale of Convent Life. Iss. 18 The Modernist Review, 2020.
- Hagen, Benjamin. Problems of the Past and Figuring of Aging in Late and Early Wallace Stevens. Iss. 4 Age, Culture, Humanities, 2019.
- Hagen, Benjamin. Sensibility, Parochiality, Spirituality: Toward a Critical Method and Ethic of Response in Woolf, Spivak, and Mahmood. In Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf, editors Kristina K. Groover, 189-207. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32568-8_11)
- Hagen, Benjamin. Sir Thomas Browne and the Reading of Remains in Virginia Woolf's "Orlando". In Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence, editors Elsa Högberg and Amy Bromley, 175-185. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414609.003.0015)
- Hagen, Benjamin. Bloomsbury and Philosophy. In Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group, editors Derek Ryan and Stephen Ross, 135-150. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. (DOI: 10.5040/9781350014947.ch-005)
- Hagen, Benjamin. Feeling Shadows: Virginia Woolf's Sensuous Pedagogy, 266-280. Vol. 132, Iss. 2 PMLA, 2017. (DOI: 10.1632/pmla.2017.132.2.266)
- Hagen, Benjamin. (review) "The Value of Virginia Woolf," by Madelyn Detloff, 171-74. Vol. 23 Woolf Studies Annual, 2017.
- Hagen, Benjamin. Intimations of Cosmic Indifference in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Olive Moore's "Spleen". In Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries: Selected Papers from the Twenty-Fifth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, editors Julie Vandivere and Megan Hicks. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University Press, 2016. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414609.003.0015)
- Hagen, Benjamin. Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies. In Personal Effects: Essays on Culture, Teaching, and Memoir in the Work of Louise DeSalvo, editors Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta, 140-52. Bronx, NY: Fordham UP, 2015. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823262274.003.0011)
- Hagen, Benjamin. A Future Not My Own: Thinking Aging in Two of Wallace Stevens’s Winter Lyrics, 385-413. Vol. 59, Iss. 3 Twentieth-Century Literature, 2013.
- Hagen, Benjamin. Radical Encounters: The Ghost and the Double in "Mrs. Dalloway"., Editors Amy C. Smith and Isabel Mª Andrés Cuevas, 13-14. Vol. 80 Virginia Woolf Miscellany, 2011.
- Hagen, Benjamin. Transgressive Simulation: Violence and Reality in Extreme Championship Wrestling. In Simulation in Media and Culture: Believing the Hype, editors Robin DeRosa, 141-50. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011.
- Hagen, Benjamin. "It Is Almost Impossible That I Should Be Here": Wordsworthian Nature and an Ethics of Self-Writing in Virginia Woolf’s "A Sketch of the Past"., Editors Kristin Czarnecki, 13-15. Vol. 78 Virginia Woolf Miscellany, 2010.
- Hagen, Benjamin. A Car, a Plane, and a Tower: Interrogating Public Images in "Mrs. Dalloway", 537-51. Vol. 16, Iss. 3 Modernism/Modernity, 2009. (DOI: 10.1353/mod.0.0119)
- Hagen, Benjamin. "David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten: Ghosts, Doubles, and Writing", 84-86. Vol. 67, Iss. 2 The Explicator, 2009.
- Hagen, Benjamin. (review) "Shakespeare and Modernism," by Carl DiPietro, 848-50. Vol. 44, Iss. 4 James Joyce Quarterly , 2007. (DOI: 10.1353/jjq.0.0011)
- Hagen, Benjamin, and Sazama, Taya. In Virginia Woolf: Profession and Performance, editors Benjamin D. Hagen and Taya Sazama. Clemson University Press.
- Biennial Award to a Newly Published Scholar in Lawrence Studies, D.H. Lawrence Society of North America, 2021
- Hagen, Benjamin, Relational Pedagogy in D.H. Lawrence’s Croydon Sketches. Presented at the 15th International D.H. Lawrence Conference (July 20, 2022)
- Hagen, Benjamin, “‘Curious Props’: Functions of the Soliloquy in The Waves. Presented at the 31st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf (June 10, 2022)
- Hagen, Benjamin, The Greatest of These: Conceptual Functions of Love in Walcott, Proust, Hardt/Negri, Brooks, hooks, and Clifton.. Presented at the AfterAffects: New Methods in Affect Theory (A Virtual Symposium) (May 20, 2022)
- Filotas, Zoli, Seurer, Leah, Hagen, Ben, and Lampert, Sara, The Radical Politics of Care: A Special Session in Memory of bell hooks. Presented at the USD Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Biennial Conference, Vermillion, SD. (March 25, 2022)
- Hagen, Benjamin, An Unwritten Life. Presented at the 30th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Vermillion/Zoom [Virtual]. (June 10, 2021)
- Hagen, Benjamin, Multiplicity, Soliloquy, and Attachment in Virginia Woolf's The Waves. Presented at the Department of Studies in English Language and Literature Third International Webinar, Khouzestan, I.R. Iran [Virtual]. (May 24, 2021)
- Hagen, Benjamin, Meeting Needs, Making Room: Investigations of Woolfian Love. Presented at the 29th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Cincinnati, OH. (June 2019)
- Hagen, Benjamin, Essaying Affects: D.H. Lawrence’s Apocalypse as Pedagogical Criticism. Presented at the Staging the Space Between, Brookings, SD. (May 2019)
- Hagen, Benjamin, Training Tastes, Essaying Affects: The Pedagogical Criticism of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Presented at the Modernist Studies Association 2018 Annual Conference, Columbus, OH. (November 2018)
- Hagen, Benjamin, Grandeur at the End: On the Sublimity of Wallace Stevens’s Old Philosopher. Presented at the John R. Milton Writers' Conference, Vermillion, SD. (October 2018)
- Hagen, Benjamin, Woolfian Love in Aggregate: Feminist—Queer—Posthuman. Presented at the 28th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Canterbury, UK. (June 2018)
- Hagen, Benjamin, Tentacles of Tenderness: Maternity, Feminism, and the Philosophical Pessimism of Olive Moore. Presented at the The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville (Louisville, KY). (February 2018)