Jil Larson
Jil Larson
Associate Professor of English
Office:
(269) 387-2587
Location:
624 Sprau Tower, Mail Stop 5331
Mailing address:
Department of English
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5331 USA
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5331 USA
Education:
- Ph.D., Indiana University
Teaching Interests:
- Modern and contemporary British literature
- Victorian studies
- Ethics and Literature
- Narrative theory
Research Interests:
- Ethics and religion in the 19th and 20th century
- Contemporary British fiction
- Memory and ethics in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro
Bio:
Dr. Jil Larson has taught at Western Michigan University since 1992. She earned her graduate degrees at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she specialized in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Her book-length study of late-Victorian British narratives and ethical theory was published by Cambridge University Press. Continuing to pursue her interests in ethics and literature, she serves on the board of WMU’s Ethics Center and has developed literature courses on topics such as ethics and belief and ethics, science, and the future. Her current research focuses on memory and ethics in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro.