Erin Hollis
Associate Professor
Biography
Erin Hollis graduated with her Ph.D. In English from Texas A&M University in 2005. As a faculty member in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics, she has created seven courses, including courses on James Joyce, theHarry Potter series, and The Graphic Novel. She is currently working on a book in which she explores how texts as disparate as James Joyce’s Ulysses and theHarry Potter series can teach us to be more decent and kind to one another.
Degrees
2005, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
1999, M.A., Texas A&M University
1996, B.A., Illinois State University
Research Areas
James Joyce, Textual Criticism/Manuscript Studies, Popular Culture, Ethics, and Aesthetics
Courses Regularly Taught
British, Irish, and American Modernism, James Joyce, Harry Potter, The Graphic Novel, Ethics, and Forgiveness
Publications
Hollis, Erin. “'So, Joss, Why Do You Always Write These Strong Women Characters?' Using Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-men to Teach Feminism.” Classroom: Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art, edited by Carrye Kay Syma and Robert G. Weiner, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013, pp. 251-259.
Hollis, Erin. “Revisiting the Gothic: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Contemporary Gothic.” Critical Insights: Good & Evil, edited by Margaret Sonser Breen, Salem Press, 2012, pp. 238-252.
Hollis, Erin. “’Oh Great! Now I Have to Deal with Witches?!’: Exploring the ‘Archntic’ Fan Fiction of True Blood.” True Blood: Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic, edited by Brigid Cherry, I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Hollis, Erin. “On Getting Lost in a Good Book: Bibliomania and the Harry Potter and Twilight Series.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 11, no. 3, 2011, http://reconstruction.digitalodu.com/Issues/113/contributors113.shtml. Accessed 03 April 2025.
Hollis, Erin. "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World as Postmodern Parody of Parody: Allusion, Exclusion, and Consumption in the Film Adaptation." Ol3Media 4. 10 2011. Accessed 02 April 2025.
Hollis, Erin. “Gorgonzola Sandwiches and Yellow Crayons: James Joyce, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Aesthetic of Minutiae.” Slayage, vol. 6, no. 2, 2022, https://www.whedonstudies.tv/uploads/2/6/2/8/26288593/hollis_slayage_6.2.pdf. Accessed 02 April 2025.
Hollis, Erin. “Former US Army Sergeant Shares a Lewis Memory." Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2, 1997, pp. 7, Illinois State University English Department.
Hollis, Erin. "The Attempted Deconstruction and Unavoidable Reconstruction of Time in Thomas Pynchon‟s Vineland." Polyglossia, vol. 1, no. 1, 1997, pp. 53-64, Lamda Delta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta.
Office Hours
Spring 2025
TTh 12:30pm-2:00pm
