Director, Internships Program; Honors College Liaison & Associate Professor
penninhl@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Office: Keezell 405
Spring 2024 Office Hours:
Tuesday, 9:30am - 12:30pm online
Specialization:
Nineteenth-century British literature, Victorian fiction, autobiography, narrative theory, theory of the novel
Education:
Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
M.A., Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
B.A., English and Hispanic Studies, The College of William and Mary
Publications
Book:
Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography. University of Missouri. 2018.
Journal/Article/Essay:
"'It is Enough': Caring Through the Gap." Narrative, 31.3 (October 2023): pp. 235-254. URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/908400
Heidi L. Pennington: 19 Cents Q&A Interview. Blog of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, April 2023.
“Interpreting the Labor and Legacy of the Independent Literary Typist; or, The Typing of Ethel Kate Dickens.” Victorian Literature and Culture (journal of Cambridge UP). 50.2 (summer 2022): 385-416.
“Life, Death, and Identity in The Lifted Veil: George Eliot’s Experiments in First-Person Fiction” in Critical Insights: George Eliot, Ed. Katie Peel. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press. 2016.
"How Do You Solve a Problem Like Esther? Reading Bleak House as Fictional Autobiography.” Victorians Institute Journal 41 (2013).
“‘But why should readers be made to feel…’: Repulsing Readerly Sympathy for Ethical Ends in the Victorian Realist Novel.” Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 7.19 (Fall 2013).
“Reading Narrative Truth through the Absence of Narrative Awareness in Wilkomirski’s Fragments.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 28.1 (Summer 2013).
