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

• 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.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Books:
   
Editor-in-Chief, The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women’s Writing Worldwide in English.  ms. in progress.  Forthcoming, 2006.  4800 pp.

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:
 “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.

“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.

“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.

"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.

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.