Emi Wood Scully is currently a fifth year PhD candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in Literature, Criticism and Textual Studies, and is a Graduate Teaching Associate of first-year composition. She specializes in early 20th-century British Fiction, Modernism, and the Interwar Novel. Her dissertation explores new ways of reading and analyzing the linguistic spaces between the confrontation of sound and the isolation away from noise, within modernist studies. Her research challenges the critical association of silence and solitude with reclusiveness, isolation, and disconnection, and focuses on how modern novelists, specifically James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Rebecca West, respond to noise with rhetorical, linguistic, and aesthetic applications of silence in their work, namely through their portrayal of character. In her free time, Scully writes poems and explores visual art through painting and drawing.