Ellen L. O'Brien
Director, Women's and Gender Studies
Roosevelt University
Department of Literature and Languages
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| Office |
Chicago Campus |
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736A
(Auditorium Bldg.)
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312.341.3723
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| Hours |
Tuesdays 12:30 to 1:30,
Thursdays 2:00 to 3:00
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| E-mail |
eobrien@roosevelt.edu |
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| Classes Taught |
ENG 340/440: Imagining Terror
WGS 404: Comparative Feminisms: India, Morocco, and the US
ENG 316/416: Modern British Literature
ENG 315/415: Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing and the Politics of Gender
ENG 313/413: Crime in Victorian Literature
ENG 312/412: Victorian Literature
ENG 318/418: Romanticism and Revolution
ENG 330/430: Postcolonial Literature
ENG 211: British Literature from 1789 to present
ENG 220: Introduction to Literary Analysis
ENG 101: Introduction to Composition
ENG 100: Basic Writing Practice
WGS 210: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
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| Research Interests |
19th and 20th-century English and Irish literature; postcolonial and global feminisms; women's poetry and poetics; cultural representations of gendered crimes and sexual violence
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| Selected Publications |
Crime in Verse: The Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era. The Ohio State University Press. 2008
“Irish Political Voices in Nineteenth-Century English Street Ballads.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. 28.2/29.1 (Fall 2002/Spring 2003).
“‘Every Man Who Is Hanged Leaves a Poem’: Criminals and Poets in Victorian Street Ballads.” Victorian Poetry. 39:2 (Summer 2001): 319-341.
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| Recent Conference Presentations |
“Class, Poetry, and the Broadside Ballad.” Teaching and Theorizing Working-Class Texts. North American Victorian Studies Association. Victorian, B.C. October 2007.
“‘Well-measured terrors’: The Lyrical Politics of Wordsworth’s Sonnets Upon the Punishment of Death.” North American Victorian Studies Association. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. September 2006.
“Murder, ‘High Justice,’ and the Politics of Marriage Reform in Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton’s Clytemnestra.” North American Victorian Studies Association. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, September 2005. |
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Roosevelt University
Chicago 430 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Schaumburg
1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd, Schaumburg, IL 60173 |
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