Years at Knox: Fall 2003 to present

Education:
Ph.D., English, 2003, University of California
M.A., English and American Literature, 1997, Mills College
B.A., English and History, 1995, Willamette University

Professional 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."  

Teaching Interests: 
English literature, Enlightenment literature, Romantic literature, Victorian literature, film theories

Recent Scholarly Achievements
Publications:
"'A Mere Tale of Spectres': The Enlightenment and Shelley's Frankenstein." EnterText, (2005-2006).

"Jane Austen and Bridget Jones," Adaptation: British Literature of the Nineteenth Century and Film. Forthcoming.

Presentations: 
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. 

"Reading as Misreading:  Burney's Evelina and Epistolary Convention," Northwest Division, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Eugene, Oregon, 1997.

"Nothing as it Seems:  Charles Dickens's Great Expectations," at "The Victorian Period:  Prose, Poetry, and Drama," Mills College, Oakland, California, 1997.

"A Seer and Savant:  The Life and Work of Constance Naden," Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Davis, California,   1997.

"Philosophy and Poetry," San Francisco Browning Society, San Francisco, California, 1997.

"The Life and Work of Constance Naden," Academic Forum, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1997.

"Writing as a Woman:  E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News," at "Contemporary Women Writers," Mills College, Oakland, California, 1997.

Contact
309-341-7531
anderson@knox.edu