Leanne Oden

  • PhD Student & Teaching Assistant
  • English
  • Email: leanne_oden@uri.edu
  • Office Location: 308D Swan Hall

Biography

Leanne Oden is a Ph.D. Student and an Instructor of Record in the English Department at the University of Rhode Island. Her M.A. portfolio centered on Virginia Woolf, sexuality, and time. In her forthcoming research, Leanne questions the closure narrative of the illness versus health binary as challenged through Virginia Woolf’s writing among other modernists. 

In her role as an educator for the University of Rhode Island, she regularly teaches ENG 110: Introduction to Literature for the English Department and WRT 106: Introduction to Research Writing for the Professional and Public Writing Department. 

In June 2024, she presented her research on Between the Acts (1941) at the 33rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf, Modernity, Technology in Fresno, CA. Leanne is a member of the International Virginia Woolf Society.

Research

European Modernist Literature, Queer Theory, Virginia Woolf, Critical Theory, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Composition and Rhetoric.