Emily R. Anderson

Associate Professor of English

Contact 309-341-7531 anderson@knox.edu

General Interests
"I am fascinated by narrative and the competing explanations of how it might work. My current research is on the ways film tells stories, in ways both surprisingly similar to and different from the way a novel might. Specifically, I work on the implications of point of view and reliability on theories of narrative across media.

My previous work has focused on histories of the novel and its development throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and on the light gothic novels shed on contemporaneous philosophical questions."

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.

Selected Professional Accomplishments

Honors/Grants
Philip Green Wright-Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching, Knox College, 2007.

Publications
"Telling Stories: Unreliable Discourse, Fight Club, and the Cinematic Narrator." Journal of Narrative Theory 34.1 (2010).

"‘I Will Unfold a Tale-!': Ontology, Epistemology, and Caleb Williams" Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22.1 (2009).

"Why We Can't Live Without Mr. Darcy." Knox Magazine 92.1 (Spring 2008).

"‘A Mere Tale of Spectres': The Enlightenment and Shelley's Frankenstein." EnterText 5.3 (2006).

"Constance Naden." Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Abigail Burnham Bloom, editor. Greenwood Press. July, 2000.

Presentations
"Welcome to the Narrative: Todd Solondz, Irony, and the Cinematic Narrator." International Conference on Narrative, April, 2010.

"‘So Authoritative a Tone': Austen, Irony, and Adaptation." National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Annual Conference, March, 2010.

"Story Telling: Unreliable Discourse in Novels and Film." International Conference on Narrative, March, 2008.

"Fictional Narrative, Adaptation, and Wuthering Heights." International Conference on Narrative, March, 2007.

"Gothic Anxiety: Crises over Ontology, Epistemology, and Language." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, November, 2002.