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 the characters of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf exist in such a loud historical moment, and how both authors respond to sound with rhetorical, linguistic, and aesthetic applications of silence in their novels. 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 post war modernist studies. While utilizing the novels of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she will demonstrate how interiority and silence differ. She is also interested in concepts of time, memory, fleeting moments of being, repetition, everyday studies, non-linear storytelling, domesticity, the notion of home, and thing theory. In her free time, Wood 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 the characters of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf exist in such a loud historical moment, and how both authors respond to sound with rhetorical, linguistic, and aesthetic applications of silence in their novels. 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 post war modernist studies. While utilizing the novels of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she will demonstrate how interiority and silence differ. She is also interested in concepts of time, memory, fleeting moments of being, repetition, everyday studies, non-linear storytelling, domesticity, the notion of home, and thing theory. In her free time, Wood 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)