Dr. Randi Saloman

Contact

• Office: C311 Tribble Hall
• Phone: (336) 758-4942
• Email: salomarb@wfu.edu

Degrees

• PhD Yale University
• MA Johns Hopkins University
• BA Columbia University

Areas of Interest

• Twentieth-Century British Literature
• Anglophone/Post-45 Literature
• The Edwardians
• Genre Studies

Courses Taught at Wake Forest

• ENG  396/696 Contemporary British Fiction
• ENG 165 British Literature Survey
• ENG 150 Hotel Stories
• WRI 111 Downton Abbey: The Golden Age of Edwardian England
• WRI 111 Travel, Tourism, and the Hotel

Selected Works

Selected Books

• Hotel Citizens: Space, Place, and Domestic Life in Modern Literature. Current project.
• Ed., A Room with a View (1908), by E.M. Forster. Broadview Press. Forthcoming, Jan 2025.
• Ed., The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902), by Arnold Bennett. Broadview Press, August 2016.
• Virginia Woolf’s Essayism, Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Paperback Edition, June 2014.

Selected Articles

• “‘We refuse to be each other’: Zadie Smith’s Rewriting of E.M. Forster’s Liberalism.” Textual Practice, 2021, Vol. 35 (4) 687-705.
• “‘Do you think you’re at the Gresham?’: Accepting Imperfection in ‘The Dead.’” Modernist Cultures 10.2 (July 2015): 159-177.
• “‘Unsolved Problems’: Essayism, Counterfactuals, and the Futures of A Room of One’s Own.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 32.1 (Spring 2013): 53-73.
• “Arnold Bennett’s Hotels.” Twentieth-Century Literature, 58.1 (Spring 2012): 1-25.