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English Department Faculty
Jen Cadwallader
Assistant Professor of English
Educational Background:
B.A. Alfred University
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Recent courses taught:
English 352, Victorian Literature: Science and Culture
English 212, British Literary Traditions II
English 185, Seminar in Argument and Exposition: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Identity
Research Areas:
Victorian ghost stories and early psychology, nineteenth-century science and technology, the history of children’s literature and contemporary children’s and YA literature, political economy and identity
Recent publications and presentations:
“Political Economy and Women’s Work in Jean Ingelow’s Mopsa the Fairy.” Women’s Writing. (forthcoming). 24 manuscript pages.
“’Formed for labour, not for love’: Plain Jane and the Limits of Female Beauty.” Bronte Studies 34.3 (2009): 234-246.
“Death by Train: Spectral Technology and Dickens’s Mugby Junction.” Modern Language Association. San Francisco, 2008.
“Spirit Photography and the Victorian Culture of Mourning.” Modern Language Studies 37.2 (2008): 8-31.
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