MARTHA VICINUS--CURRICULUM VITAE
Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor of English,
Women’s Studies and History

ADDRESS
Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003
734-647-7677 | vicinus@umich.edu

EDUCATION
Northwestern University, B. A., English honors, 1961.
Johns Hopkins University, M. A., English, 1962.
University of Wisconsin, Ph.D., English and History, 1968.

EMPLOYMENT
Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan, 1994-
Interim Chair of Graduate Studies, Department of English, University of Michigan, 2001-02
Chair, Department of English, University of Michigan 1994-98
Visiting Professor, University of Amsterdam, August, 1987.
Visiting Professor, Griffith University, University of Brisbane, Australia, March-April, 1985.
Professor, University of Michigan, 1981-
Editor, Victorian Studies, Indiana University, 1970-81.
Associate Editor, Victorian Studies, Indiana University, 1969-70.
Professor, Indiana University, 1977-81.
Associate Professor, Indiana University, 1972-77.
Assistant Professor, Indiana University, 1968-72.
Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, 1964-65, 67-68.
Instructor, Dean Junior College, Franklin, MA, 1962-63.

HONORS
National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 2000-01.
University of Michigan Humanities Award, Winter 1999.
NEH Senior Fellowship, January-September 1994.
Andrew Mellon Fellow, The Huntington Library, 1994 (2 months, declined).
Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australia National University, September-November, 1993.
Julia Lockwood Award, 1992-97 ($3000 annual research fund).
Director, NEH Summer Seminar, 1992, 1996.
Rackham Graduate School Research Partnership, 1991-92 and 1995-96.
University of Michigan Supplemental Research Grant, 1991.
NEH Travel-to-Collections Grant, 1991.
Steelcase Fellow, University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, 1990-91.
Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Flinders University, University of Adelaide, Australia, February-April, 1990.
Ida Beam Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, January 1986.
Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney, Australia, June, 1985.
University of Michigan Society of Fellows, Senior Fellow, 1984-87.
University of Michigan Rackham Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1984.
University of Michigan Rackham Research Grant, 1983.
University of Michigan Grant-in-Aid of Research, 1982, 84.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1980-81.
American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid of Research, 1979.
Indiana University Overseas Conference Grant, 1976, 1980.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1975.
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, 1973-74.
American Council of Learned Societies Study Fellowship, 1973-74.
Leverhulme Fellowship, runner-up, 1972-73.
University of Wisconsin Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1971-72 (declined).
Indiana University Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1970, 1973, 1980.
Indiana University Grant-in-Aid of Research, 1969, 1970, 1976.
Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1967-68.
University Fellowship and Vilas Traveling Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1966-67.
Project Assistantship, University of Wisconsin, 1965-66.
University Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, 1961-62.

COURSES TAUGHT
Graduate: Survey of Victorian Literature, Victorian novel, Women in Victorian Fiction, Introduction to Interdisciplinary Methods in the Victorian Period (English and History), Victorian Popular Culture, The 1890s: Patriots, Aesthetes and Feminists, Feminist Literary Criticism, The Brontës, Victorian Others: Race, Class and Gender, The Literature of Imperialism, 1880-1920, Victorian Sexuality, The Rise of the Modern Homosexual Identity, 1880-1930.

Undergraduate: Freshman Composition, Advanced Composition, World Literature Survey, Modern Literature Survey, English Literature, 1780-1920, English and American Literature, 1850-1940, Victorian Literature Survey, Literature and the Industrial Revolution, Literary Responses to the City, Victorian Women (English and History), Literature and Women, Women and Film, Women's Personal Writings, Women and the Arts (literature, film and fine arts), Minority Women's Literature, Alternatives for Women in Literature (Indiana Women's Prison), History of Lesbianism, Theories of Feminism, Travel Literature, Anglo-American Responses to Italy, 1850-1930.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Department (IU): Lectures Committee, 1969-70, Undergraduate Advisor, 1970-73, Chair, Victorian Studies Program, 1970-80, Master's Examination Committee, 1971-72, Graduate Awards Committee, 1972-73, Appointments Committee, 1974-76, Advisory Committee, 1974-76, 79-80, Graduate Advisor, 1975-78, 79-80. Graduate Studies Committee, 1975-78, 79-80.

Department (UM): Executive Committee, 1982-84, 88-90, Salary Committee, 1982-84, Chair, Victorian/Modern Search Committee, 1982, Chair, Victorian Search Committee, 1983, Graduate Studies Committee, 1985-87, Romantic/Victorian Search Committee, 1988-89, Chair, Modern Search Committee, 1989-90, Five-Year Planning Committee, 1991-92, Department Chair, 1994-98, Graduate Admissions, 2000, Interim Graduate Chair, 2001-02.

University: College of Arts and Sciences Promotions Committee, 1972-73, Lilly Library Fellowships Committee, 1975-77, Summer Faculty Research Grants, 1979-80, Search Committee, Dean of Libraries, 1979-80, Civil Liberties Committee, 1982-84, Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of Higher Education, 1983-86, Search Committee, College of Literature, Arts and Sciences Dean, 1989, Executive Committee, College of L. S. & A., 1990-93, Presidential Search Advisory Committee, 1996, Residential College Liaison Committee, 1999-2002.

Women's Studies: Task Force to Organize Women's Studies, 1972-73, Women's Studies Committee (IU), 1974-76, 79-80, Program Coordinator, Midwest Women's Conference, April 1975, Chair, Search Committee for Coordinator, 1976-77, Women's Studies Committee (UM), 1981- , Chair, Search Committee, Women's Studies-Social Science Appointment, 1982-83, Director, Women's Studies, Autumn, 1982, 84, 85, Winter, 1987, Autumn, 1988, Chair, Awards Committee, 1991-93, Chair, Search Committee for Director, 1995-96.

Am. Federation of Teachers: Executive Committee, Local 2254, 1972-73, 74-75, 79-80, Local 2254 National Delegate, 1973, Local 2254, State Delegate, 1975, 76, 77, President, Local 2254, 1975-76.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association, American Historical Association, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, National Women's Studies Association, Berkshire Women's History Association, Women's Research and Resources Centre (London).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Social Science Research Council, referee and co-chair, Sexuality Research, 1999-2003.
National Endowment for the Humanities, referee, 1976- (general proposals); 1984 (summer grants).
American Council of Learned Societies, referee, 1987-89.
Program Committee, Berkshire Women’s History Conference, 1974.
Judge, “Popular Culture Conference,” Sweet Briar College, 1978.
Judge, Edith and Alice Hamilton Prize, University of Michigan Press, 1978; Steering committee, 1981-89; Chair, 1984.
Evaluator, Canada Council for the Arts and Humanities, Australian Research Council, 1989-
Evaluator, Humanities Research Council, Australia, 1988-
Editorial Board, Radical America, 1976-89.
Editorial Board, Radical Teacher, 1976-
Editorial Board, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1981-89.
Editorial Board, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 1981-
Associate Editor, Feminist Studies, 1982-83; Editor, 1983-93.
Editorial Board, Victorian Studies, 1982-
Editorial Board, NWSA Journal, 1988-
Editorial Board, Journal of Homosexuality, 1988-
Associate Editor, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1989-93
Editorial Board, Women's History Review, 1991-
Editorial Board, Victorian Literature and Culture, 1991-
Advisory Board, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1993-.
Advisory Board of Victorian Literature and Culture 1997-1999.

Reader, Indiana University Press, Stanford University Press, University of Texas Press, University of California Press, Rutgers University Press, Columbia University Press, Penguin Books, University of Michigan Press, University of Chicago Press, Norton, Cambridge University Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Open University Educational Enterprises, Princeton University Press, Harvester Press, State University of New York Press, Feminist Press, University of Georgia Press, Rowman and Littlefield Press, Routledge, University of New England Press.

Reader, Victorian Studies, Signs, Feminist Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Victorian Poetry, Criticism, American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in History and Society, Albion, Criticism, Browning Institute Studies, American Journal of Education, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Sexuality, Gender and History, Journal of Women’s History.

Participant (by invitation): History Workshop Conference, “Working-Class Culture” (Oxford, 1976); keynote speaker: “Regional Culture, 1780-1920” (Leicester, 1978); “The New Woman and the New Family” (France and USA, 1979, 80, 82); “The Substance and the Shadow: Images of Victorian Womanhood” (Yale Center for British Art, 1982); “Communities of Women” (Stanford, 1983); “Onder Vrouwen, Onder Mannen Conference” (Amsterdam, 1983), "Victorian Studies Alumni Conference" (Indiana University, 1984); keynote speaker, “Crucible of Feminism: Women in the Nineteenth Century” (University of Adelaide), 1985; “Feminist Literary Theory,” University of Virginia, 1986; keynote speaker, Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1987, major speaker, “Homosexuality, Which Homosexuality?” (Amsterdam, 1987); keynote speaker, Harvard University, Women's History Week, 1988; ACLS/National Humanities Center conference, “The Humanities in the 1990s: Perspectives on the Liberal Arts, Research and Education,” 1989; keynote speaker, Ontario Victorian Studies Association, 1989; major speaker, “Florence Nightingale and Her Era,” State University of New York - Buffalo, 1989, keynote speaker, Conference on British Studies, October 1989; summarizer, “Masculinities” conference, Rutgers Center for Historical Research, December 1989; keynote speaker, Copenhagen, Denmark, “Sexuality and Post-Modernism,” December 9-11, 1989; Victorian Committee Conference, CUNY Graduate School, May 9-10, 1991, Seminar in Modern History, Tel Aviv University, Nov. 5-8, 1991; Ian Fletcher Annual Memorial Lecture, Arizona State University, April 2-3, 1992; Distinguished Speaker Lecture series, Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, Ontario, Nov. 6-7, 1992; keynote speaker, Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, April 15-17, 1993; keynote speaker, “Victorian Sexuality” University of Sydney, Oct. 16, 1993. Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study, “Centuries' Ends, Narrative Means,” Texas A&M, March 24-27, 1994; keynote speaker, Women's History Caucus, AHA, Jan. 6-8, 1994; keynote speaker, Dickens Conference, UC. Santa Cruz, Aug. 4-7, 1994; keynote speaker, Conference on British Studies, Oct. 28-30, 1994; International Women’s History Conference, August, 1995; Religion, Gender and Society Conference, Tel Aviv University, March 16-19, 1998, keynote speaker, “Conference on Sex and Conflict,” University of Lund, Sweden, October 8-10, 1998, keynote speaker, Anne Lister Conference, University of Leeds, November 14, 1998, “Women and the Flight to Italy,” Florence, Italy, June 21-23, 1999, “Homosexuality in the Eighteenth Century,” UCLA, March 3-4, 2000, “The Future of the History of Sexuality,” “The Individual and the Notion of the Private Life,” 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, August 6-13, 2000, University of Oslo, Norway, “Sexuality 2000,” University of Oslo, August 18-19, 2000.

Midwest Victorian Studies Association: Chair, local arrangements, April 1980, April 1984; Vice-President, 1981-83; President, 1984-86.

Director, “Patriarchs, Prophets and Demons: The Major Victorians Revisited,” Winter 1984 (semester of courses, plays, musical events, art exhibits, and weekly lectures).

Television consultant, “Shoulder to Shoulder.” PBS Educational television series, 1985-87.

Advisor, Kinsey Institute of Sex Research cataloguing project, 1985-1986.

Coordinator, "Women and Memory" conference, March 27-29, 1986.

External evaluator, University of Iowa Women's Studies Program, December 1986.

External evaluator, Graduate English Program, York University, Ontario, Canada, May, 1989.

External evaluator, University of Pennsylvania English Department, October, 1994.

External reader for Ph.D. dissertation, University of Essex, 1986; University of Kerala, India, 1991; University of Amsterdam, 1991; University of Sydney, 1992, 1993,1994 (English and History), LaTrobe University, 2000.

LECTURES AND PANELS

(Topics upon request)

Invited talks: conferences: Modern Language Association, Midwest Modern Language Association, College English Association, Ontario Victorian Studies Association (1976, 94), Western Canada Victorian Studies Association, Northeastern Victorian Studies Association, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Conference on British Studies (1976, 79, 82, 86, 97), Popular Culture Association, Pacific Conference on British Studies (1981), Berkshire Women’s History Conference (1981, 84, 87, 90, 93, 96, 99); Bay Area Women's Research Group, National Women's Studies Association, Shelby Cullom Davis Center (Princeton), University of London Women's History Group, Semiotic Society of America, CUNY-Gay and Lesbian History Conference, Center for the Study of Freedom, Washington University—St. Louis, October 13-15, 1997, 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, August 2000.

Invited talks: Academic institutions: Community College, Maryland, University of Oregon, Sacramento State University, University of California, Berkeley, William and Mary College, Ohio State University, Northern Illinois University, Radcliffe Institute, Dartmouth College, Northeastern University, University of Miami, University of Toronto, University of Virginia, Harvard University, University of Maine, Antioch College, Ruskin College, Oxford, Berkshire College of Education, Reading, San Jose State University, Stanford University, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Leicester, Indiana University, University of Missouri, Northwestern University, University of Michigan, University of Cincinnati, University of Missouri at St. Louis, Wayne State University, University of Iowa, Michigan State University, University of Osnabruck, University of Oldenburg, Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Center for Development Studies (India), University of Kerala, University of Madras, University of Rajasthan, University of Lucknow, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Banaras Hindu University, University of Western Australia, University of Adelaide, University of Queensland, Griffith University, University of New England, University of Melbourne, Monash University, LaTrobe University, Australian National University, University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University of Tasmania, University of Iowa, Michigan State University, University of North Carolina, University of Colorado, University of Essex, Duke University, Flinders University, University of Pennsylvania, University of New South Wales, University of Newcastle (Australia), Skidmore College, Utah State University, Alfred University, University of Kentucky, University of Florence, Italy, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina—Greensboro, Duke University.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader. Editor. 10 articles plus introduction. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996).

Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. Co-edited with Martin Bauml Duberman and George Chauncey, Jr. (New York: New American Library, 1989). 30 articles and introduction.

Recipient of Lambda awards for Best Gay Anthology/Best Lesbian Anthology for 1989.

Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: A Selection of Letters. Co-edited with Bea Nergaard. (London: Virago, 1989; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990).

“Women and Memory.” Special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review, 26 (Winter, 1987). Co-edited with Margaret Lourie and Domna Stanton.

Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985; paper, 1988; London: Virago, 1985).

A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977; paper, 1980; London: Methuen, 1980). Edited with an introduction.

Broadsides of the Industrial North (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham, 1976). Facsimile edition with an introduction.

The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth-Century British Working-Class Literature (London: Croom Helm; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974).

Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972; paper, 1973; London: Methuen, 1980). Edited with an introduction.

ARTICLES

“The Devouring Mother and the Lesbian Boy.” Published in Norwegian: “Den altoppslukende kvinnen og den lesbiske gutten,” Kvinneforskining 3/4 (2000), 74-84.

“Memoir of Ruth Brigitta Anderson Bordin,” in Ruth Bordin, Women at Michigan: The “Dangerous Experiment,” 1870s to the Present (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), pp. vii-xii.

“Feminists and Sex: How to Find Lesbians at the Turn of the Century,” Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History: From the Middle Ages to the Present, eds. Tjitske Akkerman and Siep Stuurman (New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 186-202.

“Fin-de-Siècle Theatrics: Male Impersonation and Lesbian Desire,” Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace, 1870-1930, ed. Billie Melman (New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 163-192. (Expanded version of “Turn-of-the-Century Male Impersonation”).

“Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial,” Journal of British Studies, 36/1 (January 1997), 70-98.

“Turn-of-the-Century Male Impersonation: Rewriting the Romance Plot,” Sexualities in Victorian Britain, eds. Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), pp. 187-213.

“‘Tactful Organizing and Executive Power’: Biographies of Florence Nightingale for Girls,” Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography, eds. Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 195-213. Revised version of “What Makes a Heroine?”

“Models for Public Life: Biographies of ‘Noble Women’ for Girls” The Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915, eds. Claudia Nelson and Lynne Vallone (Athens: University of Georgia Press 1994), pp. 52-70. Revised version of “What Makes a Heroine?”

“Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All Facts and No Theory?” Radical History Review, 60(1994), 57-75.

“The Adolescent Boy: Fin de Siècle Femme Fatale?” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 5/1 (Summer, 1994), 90-114. Reprinted in Victorian Sexual Dissidence, ed. Richard Dellamora (University of Chicago Press, 1999), pp. 83-106.

“Women and the Theatre: Economics, Myth, and Metaphor,” Victorian Literature and Culture, 20 (1993), 337-347.

“‘They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong’: The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity,” Homosexuality, Which Homosexuality? Eds. Anja van Kooten Niekerk and Theo van der Meer (Amsterdam: An Dekker, 1989), pp. 171-198. A revised and expanded version appears in Feminist Studies, 18/3 (Fall 1992), 467-497 (for a special issue which I edited).

Reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, eds. Henry Abelove, Michèle Barale, David M. Halperin (New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 432-452 and Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader, ed. Martha Vicinus (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 233-259.

“What Makes a Heroine? Nineteenth-Century Girls’ Biographies,” Genre, 20/2 (Summer, 1987), 171-187. Shortened version reprinted in Florence Nightingale and Her Era: A Collection of New Scholarship, eds. Vern Bullough, et al (New York: Garland, 1990), pp. 90-106.

“Vrouwwen creeren monsters: Frankenstein and Jane Eyre” (“Women Create Monsters: Frankenstein and Jane Eyre”) and “Wat is een heldin? De mesisjesbiografie als model voor optreden in het openbaar” (“What Makes a Heroine? Girls’ Biographies as Models of Public Action” [revised version of Genre article]). Public lectures from August, 1987, in Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies, 10/1 (1989), pp. 8-21 and 52-64.

Contributor, “Victorian Studies 1957-1987: An Editorial Birthday Party,” Victorian Studies, 31/1 (1987), 96-99.

“Lebensgemeinschaften alleinstehender Frauen im England des 19 Jahrhunderts,” Gulliver, 18 (1985), 29-44. A shortened translation of chapter 1 of Independent Women.

“Distance and Desire: English Boarding-School Friendships,” Signs 9/4 (1984), 600-622. Reprinted in The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs, eds. Estelle B. Freedman, et al (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985). Also reprinted in Hidden from History, eds. Duberman, Vicinus and Chauncey.

trans: “Afstand en verlangen. Vrouwenvriendschappen op engelse kotscholen, 1870-1920,” Tijdschrift voor vrouwenstudies, 5/3 (1984), 308-332.

“Tactiques des suffragettes anglaises,” Strategies des femmes (Paris: Tierce, 1984), pp. 407-423.

English version: “Male Space and Women’s Bodies: The English Suffragette Movement,” Women in Culture and Politics: A Century of Change, eds. Judith Friedlander, et. al. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986), pp. 209-222.

“Introduction,” George Egerton, Keynotes and Discords (London: Virago Modern Classics, 1983).

“Rediscovering the ‘New Woman’ of the 1890s: The Stories of ‘George Egerton’,” Feminist Re-visions: What Has Been and Might Be, eds. Vivian Patraka and Louise A. Tilly (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Women's Studies Program, 1984), pp. 12-25. A revised version of the “Introduction.”

“‘One Life to Stand Beside me’: Emotional Conflicts in First Generation College Women in England,” Feminist Studies, 8/3 (Fall, 1982), 603-628.

trans: “Vivere insieme. College women inglesi tra fine ’800 e inizio ’900,” Memoria: rivista di storia delle donne, 4 (1982), 45-58.

“Sexuality and Power: A Review of Current Work in the he History of Sexuality,” Feminist Studies, 8/1 (Spring, 1982), 133-156.

“The Ambiguities of Self-Help: The Lancashire Dialect Poet Edwin Waugh,” The Journal of the Lancashire Dialect Society, no. 30 (January 1981), pp. 24-39 and no. 31 (January 1982), pp. 12-35. Reprinted as a separate pamphlet, The Ambiguities of Self-Help: Concerning the Life and Work of the Lancashire Dialect Writer Edwin Waugh (Littleborough, Lancs: George Kelsall, 1984).

“‘Helpless and Unfriended’: Nineteenth-Century Domestic Melodrama,” New Literary History, 13 (Fall, 1981), 127-143. A revised, shortened version reprinted in When They Weren't Doing Shakespeare: Essays in Nineteenth-Century British and American Theatre, eds. Judith L. Fisher and Stephen Watt (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989), pp. 174-186.

“The Achievement of the Chartists,” in The Socialist Novel in Britain: Essays in Its Reconstruction, ed. H. Gustav Klaus (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1981), pp. 7-25. A revised version of chapter III of The Industrial Muse.

“‘I Have Lived with All the Women I Ever Want to Here’: Teaching Women's Studies in Prison,” Radical Teacher, 16 (December 1979), 18-20. Co-authored with Cynthia Kinnard.

“‘Happy Times...If You Can Stand It’: Women Entertainers During the Interwar Years in England,” Theater Journal, 31 (1979), 357-369.

“The Lilly Library Nineteenth-Century London Collection,” The Indiana University Bookman, 12 (December 1977). Co-authored with John A. Degen and Donald J. Gray. Authored "Introduction" and "Dark London," pp. 1-4 and 63-92.

“Retrospective [History of Victorian Studies],” Victorian Studies, 20 supp. (1977), 9-12.

“‘To Live Free or Die’: The Rhetoric and Style of Chartist Speeches,” Style, 10 (1976), 481-503.

“The Study of Popular Culture,” Victorian Studies, 18 (1975), 473-483.

“Literary Voices of an Industrial Town: Manchester, 1810-1870,” in The Victorian City: Images and Realities, eds. H. J. Dyos and Michael Woolf (London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973), II, 739-761.

“The Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Poetry,” College English, 32 (1971), 548-662). Reprinted in The Politics of Literature, eds. Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter (New York: Pantheon, 1972), pp. 322-253.

“Lawrence Among the Radicals: MMLA 1969: An Exchange [with Mary Louise Briscoe],” D. H. Lawrence Review, 2 (1969), 63-69.

BOOK REVIEWS

Reviews have appeared in Victorian Studies, College English, Victorian Poetry, JEGP: A Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Jump-Cut: A Review of Contemporary Cinema, American Historical Review, Societas: A Review of Social History, Urban History Yearbook, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, International Labor and Working-Class History, Signs, New Times Feminist Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, In These Times, Women's Review of Books, Criticism, Albion, Comparative Studies in History and Society, American Journal of Education, Gender and History, Journal of Homosexuality, Keats-Shelley Journal.

Selected recent reviews:

Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality and The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes in Journal of Social History, 29/2 (Winter 1995), 470-72.

Dierdre David, Rule Brittania: Women, Empire and Victorian Writing and Deborah Epstein Nord, Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation and the City in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, (April 1997), 286-290.

Alice Domurat Dreger, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Victorian Studies, 42/2 (Winter 1999-2000), 321-323.

Bonnie Zimmerman, ed. Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures, The Lesbian Review of Books, 7/1 (Fall 2000), 12-13.

FORTHCOMING

“‘The Gift of Love’: Nineteenth-Century Religion and Lesbian Passion.” Forthcoming in a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Also accepted for a collection of essays, Strategies of Subversion: Religion and Feminism in Modern Britain, 1750-1950, ed. Sue Morgan.

“Whips and Wounds: Contemporary Responses to The Well of Loneliness.” Forthcoming in Palatable Poison: The Well of Loneliness Seventy Years On, eds. Laura Doan and Jay Prosser.

Review of Linda Hunt Beckman, Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters, Middle Atlantic Quarterly.

Review of Tracy C. Davis, The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914, Victorian Studies.

WORK IN PROGRESS

“‘The Queer Comradeship of Outlawed Thought’: Vernon Lee (1856-1935) and the Art of Nostalgia”

Intimate Friends: Same Sex Love Between Women, 1780-1930. Book-length study of the development of the modern lesbian.

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