LAURA CALLANAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Office: College Hall 631A
Telephone: 412.396.1278
Email: callananl@duq.edu
Office Hours Spring 2012:
Monday/Wednesday 12:30-2:00 pm
EDUCATION
B.A., University of Massachusetts
M.A., University of Massachusetts
Ph.D., Emory University
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
“Remystifying Literary Studies.” Rendering the Trauma of Social Isolation: British Women’s Writing 1790-2007. (In progress)
Review: Vanessa D. Dickerson’s Dark Victorians (University of Illinois Press, 2008) for Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN). Issue #54 (2009).
“‘Three Cheers for Eve’: Feminism, Capitalism, and Artistic Subjectivity in Janet Fitch’s White Oleander.” Forthcoming in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. (July-August 2008): 495-518.
Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Conflict and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose. Ohio State University Press, 2006.
"Defining Expertise in the Interdisciplinary Classroom" Pedagogy 4.3 (Fall 2004) 385-399.
"Race and the Politics of Interpretive Disruption in Harriet Martineau's The Hour and the Man (1841)." Women's Writing 9:3 (2002) 415-433.
"'So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth': Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth-Seeking in the Royal Commission's Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion." Victorians Institute Journal 30 (2002).
"The Seduction of Daniel Deronda." Women's Writing 3:2 (1996) 177-188
