rwarhol
Robyn Warhol-Down
Professor, Department of English
Director Humanities Center
Old Mill 439
phone: (802)656-4171
email: robyn.warhol@uvm.edu
EDUCATION: B.A., Pomona College;
Ph.D., Stanford University
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT:
- Feminisms (Feminist Literary Criticism)
- 19th-century Women's Writing
- 19th-century British Novel
- Survey of Literary Theory
- Seminar: Jane Austen
- Seminar: The Novels of the Brontes
SELCTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Editor-in-Chief, The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women’s Writing Worldwide
in English. Forthcoming, 2006.
Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Popular Forms.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003. Theory and Interpretation
of Narrative series, James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz, series editors.
Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. Co-edited
with Diane Price Herndl. Revised second edition. 1997.
Women's Work: An Anthology of American Literature. Co-edited
with Barbara and George Perkins. New York: McGraw-Hill.
1994.
Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. Co-edited
with Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991.
Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters:
"Teaching Gender and Narrative." Options for Teaching Narrative. Eds. James Phelan, David Herman, and Brian McHale. New York: MLA. Forthcoming 2008.
"Narrative Refusals and Generic
Transformation in Austen and James: What Doesn't Happen in Northanger
Abbey and Spoils of Poynton." Henry James Review, forthcoming, 2007.
”Recruiting and Retaining Minority Faculty Members in English.” Association of Departments of English Bulletin 137(2005): 57-60
”Neonarrative;
or, How to Render the Unnarratable in Realist Fiction and Contemporary
Film.” A Companion to Narrative Theory. Eds. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 220-231
“Physiology, Gender and Feeling: On Cheering Up.” Narrative
12.2 (2004): 226-229.
“The Rhetoric of Addiction: From Victorian Novels to A.A.” High Anxieties:
Cultural Studies in Addiction, eds. Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield.
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2002. 97-108.
“Nice Work, If You Can Get It--And If You Can’t? Building Women’s
Studies without Tenure Lines.” Women’s Studies on its Own, ed. Robyn
Wiegman, Duke UP, 2002. pp. 224-232.
" 'Ain't I de one everybody come to see?': Popular
Memories of Uncle Tom's Cabin " Hop on Pop: The Pleasures and Politics
of Popular Culture, eds. Henry Jenkins, Tara MacPherson, and Jane Shattuc.
Duke University Press, 2002. pp. 650-670.
“How Narration Produces Gender: Femininity as Affect and Effect in
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Narrative. Vol. 9, No. 2 (May,
2001): 182-187.
“Making ‘Gay’ and ‘Lesbian’ into Household Words: How Serial Form Works
in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City.” Contemporary Literature.
40.3 (Fall, 1999): 378-402. Reprinted in Brian Richardson, ed., Narrative
Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames. Columbus: Ohio
State University Press, 2002. 229-248.
CURRENT PROJECTS:
"Narrative Refusals: What Doesn't Happen in 19th-century British
Novels" for the Ohio State University Press series in Theories and
Interpretation of Narrative, including chapters on Austen, Dickens, C.
Brontë and James
"Feminisms Redux" a new shorter anthology of
feminist criticism and theory for Rutgers University Press
"Romancing the Archive" a collection being co-edited with Helena
Michie.
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