Dinsman, Melissa

Associate Professor

English

Phone: 718-262-2525
Office Location: AC-2B10
Email: mdinsman@york.cuny.edu

Melissa Dinsman is Associate Professor of English and regularly teaches courses in literary theory, research writing for the English major, and British modernism. She is the author of Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II (Bloomsbury 2015) and co-editor of Mid-Century Women's Writing: Disrupting the public/private divide (Manchester UP, 2024). Her research focuses on WWII women writers, the politics of the domestic, and information networks. Dinsman is currently at work on her next book project, which explores the ways British women writers sold WWII to the American public. With her colleague, Heather Robinson, Dinsman also writes about Violet Hunt, a forgotten interwar female writer. Some of Dinsman’s most recent work can be found in English Language Notes, Women's Writing, and Feminist Modernist Studies. She currently serves as the co-editor of The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 journal and runs the English department's book club.

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Areas of Expertise

• 20th-Century British and American Modernism
• World War II Literature
• Media Studies

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