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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
The Knox-Sandburg Community Concert Band, Knox Wind Ensemble, and individual music students perform in concert and recital, November 13 through 17 at Knox College.
Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Elisabeth Herrmann of the University of Alberta gives the 2009 Johnson Lecture, "Mapping Germany from a Cultural Perspective Twenty Years after the Fall of the Wall," November 13 at Knox College.
Severed heads, a ghost in the well -- the Knox College Japanese Club marks Halloween by building a "Kimodameshi," which led visitors through scenes drawn from traditional Japanese ghost stories.
