Office: Keezell 418
Phone: 540-568-6298
Email: federiar@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009 - TT 2:00-4:00

Courses: Fall 2009
GENG 236: Survey of English Literature II, TT 3:30-4:45
ENG 329 Victorian Literature, TT 12:30-1:45
ENG 412 Special Topics Seminar: Death and Literature, M 5:00-7:30

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

Interests: Victorian literature, gender studies, Scottish literature

Books

Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years, ed. (U of Missouri P, 2009)

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)

Selected articles since 1994

“Thomas Hardy’s The Well-Beloved: Love’s Descent.” ELT: English Literature in Transition 50.3 (2007): 269-90.

“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.

“Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh: Rewriting the Family.” ELT: English Literature in Transition 38.4 (1995): 466-82.     

“The Other Case: Gender and Narration in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor.” PLL: 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.

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