Writer • Poet • Painter
Emi Wood Scully (formerly Gonzalez) is currently a PhD candidate in Literature, Criticism and Textual Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her dissertation topic focuses on how interwar modernist characters, especially those found in the novels by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, exist in such a loud historical moment, and how modern novelists respond to sound with rhetorical, linguistic, and aesthetic applications of silence in their work. Her research challenges the critical association of silence with reclusiveness, isolation, and disconnection, and will demonstrate how silence is active, alive, and holds its own power. Furthermore, her research opens up new ways to read and analyze linguistic spaces between the confrontation of sound and the isolation away from noise within modernist studies. She is also interested in concepts of time, memory, fleeting moments of being, repetition, everyday studies, non-linear storytelling, domesticity, spatial theory, and thing theory. In her free time, Scully writes poems and explores visual art through painting and drawing.
Writer • Poet • Painter
Emi Wood Scully (formerly Gonzalez) is currently a PhD candidate in Literature, Criticism and Textual Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her dissertation topic focuses on how interwar modernist characters, especially those found in the novels by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, exist in such a loud historical moment, and how modern novelists respond to sound with rhetorical, linguistic, and aesthetic applications of silence in their work. Her research challenges the critical association of silence with reclusiveness, isolation, and disconnection, and will demonstrate how silence is active, alive, and holds its own power. Furthermore, her research opens up new ways to read and analyze linguistic spaces between the confrontation of sound and the isolation away from noise within modernist studies. She is also interested in concepts of time, memory, fleeting moments of being, repetition, everyday studies, non-linear storytelling, domesticity, spatial theory, and thing theory. In her free time, Scully writes poems and explores visual art through painting and drawing.
How then does a modern novelist portray fleeting moments in a boundless world where writers are expected to sever ties with the past? If we are occupying an eternal now, but our actions occur in a timed sequence, how can the present moment be ossified with words?
from Scully’s recent work “‘Now is the Moment’: Writing To Be in The Waves” (Forthcoming, Lexington Books Publication)