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name: Tara Prescott
about: Tara Prescott is a Lecturer in Writing Programs at UCLA. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature, modernism, poetry, graphic novels, feminist theory, and James Joyce. Some of the courses she teaches include English Composition 3 (Composition, Rhetoric, and Language), English Composition 3SL (Service Learning), English Composition 131B (Specialized Writing: Business and Social Policy), Honors 19: James Joyce’s Ulysses, and in winter 2016, Honors 87W: The Art of Neil Gaiman.Dr. Prescott earned her B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing at UCLA. She holds an M.A. from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in English from Claremont Graduate University, specializ Tara Prescott is a Lecturer in Writing Programs at UCLA. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature, modernism, poetry, graphic novels, feminist theory, and James Joyce. Some of the courses she teaches include English Composition 3 (Composition, Rhetoric, and Language), English Composition 3SL (Service Learning), English Composition 131B (Specialized Writing: Business and Social Policy), Honors 19: James Joyce’s Ulysses, and in winter 2016, Honors 87W: The Art of Neil Gaiman.Dr. Prescott earned her B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing at UCLA. She holds an M.A. from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in English from Claremont Graduate University, specializing in twentieth-century American literature. Her dissertation, “A ‘Lyric Elixir’: The Search for Identity in the Works of Mina Loy,” focuses on the complex and haunting poetry of a modernist poet and artist.Writing is an intrinsic part of Dr. Prescott’s life and she is excited to continue her work on the Hill. She is the editor of Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century (McFarland Press), co-editor of Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman (McFarland Press) and her recent publications have been featured in Critical Insights: James Joyce (Salem Press), Critical Insights: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Salem Press), European Joyce Studies, and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She is currently co-editing a new collection of essays, Gender and the Superhero Narrative. ...more