Office: Keezell
418
Phone: 540-568-6298
Email: federiar@jmu.edu
Office Hours:Spring 2008 MWF 12:15-1:15 and Wed 2:30-5:00
Courses:
GENG 236 - Survey of British Literature
II
ENG 299 - Writing About Literature
ENG 661 -
Specialties: Victorian literature
Education: Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University, 1989; M.A. Case Western
Reserve University, 1986; B.A. Ohio University, Honors Tutorial College, 1982;
Trinity College, Carmarthen, Wales, 1980-81
Awards:
2004 NEH Summer Seminar,
The Remaking of Charles Dickens, University of California,
Santa Cruz CA, June 28-July 30
1998-99 Edna T. Schaeffer Humanist Award, James Madison University
1996 Summer Research Grant, College of
Arts and Letters, James Madison University
1992-93 Sigma Tau Delta English Teacher of the Year Award, James
Madison University
1992 Madison Fellowship, James
Madison University.
1992 Faculty Development Award, James Madison
1991 NEH Summer Institute, Victorian Culture and
Society, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
CT
Publications:
Books
Idol of Suburbia:
Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture. U P of Virginia, 2000.
Masculine Identity in Hardy and Gissing. Fairleigh Dickinson U P, 1991.
Chapters and articles
“Thomas Hardy’s The Well-Beloved:
Love’s Descent.” Forthcoming
in English Literature in Transition (2007)
“Making Do: George Orwell’s Coming Up for Air.” Studies
in the Novel. 37. 1 (2005): 50-63.
“Irony, Ethics, and Self-Fashioning in George Moore’s
Confessions of a Young Man.” Marketing the Author: Authorial
Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930. Ed.
Marysa Demoor. London: Palgrave, 2004. 96-113.
“David Copperfield and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Victorian
Studies. 46.1 (2003): 69-95.
“Being Torn: The Mill on the Floss.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation,
Theory. 12 (2001): 359-79.
“Dickens and Disgust.” Dickens Studies Annual. 29 (2000): 145-62.
“Marie Corelli and the New Woman.” Victorian Women Writers
and The Woman Question. Ed. Nicola Diane Thompson. Cambridge:
Cambridge U P, 1999.
“Marie Corelli: Aestheticism in Suburbia.” Women and
British Aestheticism, 1860-1934.
Eds. Talia Schaffer and Kathy Alexis Psomiades. Charlottesville:
U P of Virginia, 2000.
“Restoring Continuity: Feminism and Aesthetic Emotion. Phoebe:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory,
and Aesthetics. 9.2 (Fall 1997): 47-52.
“Literary Celebrity and Photographic realism: Marie Corelli
and Late-Victorian ‘Picture Popularity.’” Nineteeth-Century
Studies 11 (1997): 26-50.
“Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh: Rewriting the
Family.” English Literature in
Transition. 38.4 (1995): 466-82.
“The Other Case: Gender and Narration in Charlotte Brontë’s
The Professor.” Papers
on Language and Literature. 30.4 (1994): 323-45. Reprinted
in The Brontës. Ed. Patricia Ingham. London: Longman, 2002;
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (2002); The Brontës:
Critical Assessments. Ed. Eleanor McNees. Sussex: Helm, 1995.
“Books for Boys: Violence and Representation in Kidnapped
and Catriona.” Victorians Institute
Journal. 22 (1994): 115-33.
“‘A cool observer of her own sex like me’: Girl-watching
in Jane Eyre.” Victorian Newsletter. 80 (1991): 29-33.
Reprinted in Novels for Students (1997). Ed. Diane Telgen. Detroit:
Gale Research.
“The Waif at the Window: Emily Brontë’s Feminine Bildungsroman.” Victorian
Newsletter. 68 (1985): 26-28. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Criticism. 35 (1993) and Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Detroit: Gale
Research, 1997.
“Subjectivity and Story in George Moore’s Esther Waters.” English
Literature in
Transition. 36. 2 (1993): 141-57.
“‘I must have drink’: Addiction, Angst,
and Victorian Realism.” Dionysos: The Journal
of Literature and Addiction. 2.2 (1990): 11-25.
“‘Some wasting fire within her’: Unfolding Feminism in Four
Novels by Dickens. Massachusetts Studies in English. 10. 3 (1986): 161-83.
Encyclopedia entries
“Marie Corelli.” Nineteenth-Century
British Women Writers. Ed. Abigail Burnham Bloom. Westport, Ct.:
Greenwood (2000).
“Flora Thompson” and “Marie Corelli,” The Cambridge
Guide to Women’s Literature in English. Ed. Lorna Sage. Cambridge:
Cambridge U P (2000).
Book reviews:
The
Citizen’s Voice: Twentieth-Century Politics and Literature, by
Michael Keren, forthcoming in Studies in the Novel.
Literature, money, and the market: from Trollope to Amis, by Paul
Delany in English Literature in Transition 47: 1 (2004): 78-82.
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy, ed. Dale Kramer in English
Literature in Transition. 43: 4 (2000): 465-67.
Reading Thomas Hardy, ed. Charles P. C. Pettit and Thomas Hardy’s
Major Novels: An Annotated Bibliography,ed. Julie Sherrick
in English Literature in Transition. 42.4 (1999): 317-21.
George Gissing, by Robert R. Selig in English Literature in Transition 39.2
(1996): 228-31.
Conference papers:
“Reading
Emotion.” Special Session organizer. South Atlantic Modern
Language Association, Atlanta GA, November 2005.
“‘Fanaticism of Sympathy’ and Aesthetic Emotion in Middlemarch.” CEA,
Richmond VA, April 2004.
“Wuthering Heights.” Living in Exile Conference, James
Madison University, October 2002.
“Happiness.” Locating the Victorians, The Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, July 12-15, 2001.
“Reading the Wrong Books.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford,
CN, March 29-31, 2001.
“Victorians and ‘Happiness.’” Special session organizer.
Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 2000.
“‘A modern affair’: Victorian Liberalism and the Discourse
of ‘Happiness.’” The Consortium
on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850. University of Alabama, Huntsville, March
3-5, 2000.
“Dickens and Disgust.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Seventeenth
Annual Conference, University of Alabama, Huntsville, April 2-4, 1998.
“Relocating Marie Corelli.” Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies,
Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds, July 14-16, 1997.
“Marie Corelli: Idol of Suburbia.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Sixteenth Annual Conference, Davidson College, Davidson NC, March 20-22, 1997.
“‘A photograph of a lady who will not be photographed’: The
Case of Marie Corelli.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies
Eleventh Annual Conference, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven CT, April
12-13, 1996.
“The Sorrows of Satan: Marie Corelli’s Decadent Novel.” Fourth
Annual Conference on Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Century British Women Writers, University of Notre Dame, South
Bend IN, March 4-6, 1995.
“The Other Case: Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor.” Carolinas
Symposium on British Studies Twenty-first Annual Conference, Old Dominion University, Norfolk,
VA, October 15, 1994.
“Gender in Stevenson’s Kidnapped.” The Robert Louis
Stevenson Centenary Symposium, The University of South Carolina, Columbia
SC, March 23, 1994.
“Gissing’s The Odd Women: Feminism and the New Fiction.” English
Department Colloquium, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA,
April 30, 1993.
“The Masculine Subtext in Gissing’s Novels.” College
English Association of Ohio, The Ohio State University, Columbus
OH, April 1988. |
