Ariana Mashilker, Ph.D.

Assistant Teaching Professor

Name

Contact Info

Phone:
410-704-5211
Office:
LA 4350
Email:
amashilker@towson.edu
Hours:
Tu/Th: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Education

University College Dublin, James Joyce Research Centre—National University of Ireland Ph.D., English Literature

University College Dublin—National University of Ireland, M.A., Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama

Tufts University, Medford, MA, B.A., English Literature, Magna cum Laude, High Thesis Honors; Secondary Area of Concentration: Women’s Studies; Culture Concentration: Russian Literature


Areas of Expertise

British literature

Writing for business and industry

Biography

Dr. A. R. Mashilker received her doctorate from the James Joyce Research Centre at University College Dublin, National University of Ireland. Dr Mashilker has spoken extensively on Joyce’s Ulysses at numerous conferences across Europe and North America over the past two decades—but identifies just as much as a Wildean today. 

In her interdisciplinary research Dr. Mashilker considers intersections of indigenous and Judeo-Christian mythologies, grounding the critical task in archetypal and aesthetic theory, as well as theories of gender and identity. Her chapter, “Reclaiming the Fisherman: Soul Searching in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales,” is included in the monograph, Quintessential Wilde, edited by Annette Magid (2017). 

She has two book projects awaiting publication homes: Beyond Homer: Joyce’s Aesthetic and the Archetypal Feminine in Ulysses, and #motherfail, an unfiltered examination of academic motherhood. Dr Mashilker thoroughly enjoys teaching her classes at TU: ENGL 222 “Survey of British Literature: 1798—present,” and ENGL 317 “Advanced Business Writing.”