Emily R. Anderson
Associate Professor of English
General Interests
"My academic interests center on theories and histories of the novel and its development throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Specifically, I work on the implications of a narrator's point of view, the way reliability or unreliability shapes a narrative, and the interplay between forms and genres.
Similarly, I am interested in the ways film tells stories, often the same stories that narratives tell, while the camera represents subjectivity in a fundamentally different way. In my previous work, I have focused on gothic novels and films and the ways they reflect a community's larger cultural concerns."
Years at Knox: Fall 2003 to present
Education
Ph.D., English, 2003, University of California, Berkeley
M.A., English and American Literature, 1997, Mills College
B.A., English and History, 1995, Willamette University
Teaching Interests
Eighteenth-Century Literature, romantic literature, victorian literature, narrative theory, theories of the novel, the gothic, film theory, and theories of adaptation
Recent Recognition
Awards
Philip Green Wright-Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching, Knox College, 2007.
Recent Accomplishments
Publications
"Telling Stories: Unreliable Discourse, Fight Club, and the Cinematic Narrator." Under review.
"'So Authoritative a Tone': Austen, Irony, and Adaptation." Under review.
"Jane Austen and Bridget Jones," Adaptation: British Literature of the Nineteenth Century and Film. Forthcoming.
"'I Will Unfold a Tale-!': Ontology, Epistemology, and Caleb Williams" Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22 (Fall 2009): 1.
"Why We Can't Live Without Mr. Darcy" Knox Magazine 92 (Spring 2008): 1.
"'A Mere Tale of Spectres': The Enlightenment and Shelley's Frankenstein." EnterText (2005-2006).
"Constance Naden." Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom. Greenwood Press. July, 2000.
Presentations
Scholarly Writing Retreat, Lewis & Clark College, August, 2008.
"Story Telling: Unreliable Discourse in Novels and Film," International Conference on Narrative Conference, March, 2008.
NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Instructors Participant: "Adaptation and Revision: The Example of Great Expectations," July, 2007.
International Conference on Narrative Conference Presenter: "Fictional Narrative, Adaptation, and Wuthering Heights," March, 2007.
"Gothic Anxiety: Crises over Ontology, Epistemology, and Language," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Bellingham, Washington, 2002.
"Little Miss Reader: Frances Burney's Evelina," at "Studies in the 18th-Century Novel," UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 2002.
"Coming to Terms with Great Expectations: Complicating the Categories of Narration," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Portland, Oregon, 1999.
Contact
309-341-7531
anderson@knox.edu