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Curriculum Vitae

Rosemary Jann
Professor of English and Cultural Studies

George Mason University
Mailstop # 3E4
Fairfax, VA 22030

Robinson Hall A 425
703-993-3248

rjann@gmu.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., English, Northwestern University
M.A., English, Northwestern University
B.A., English, Duke University
 

Teaching Positions

Department of English, George Mason University, Associate Professor, 1986-94; Professor 1995
Department of English, Rutgers University, Assistant Professor, 1979-86; Associate Professor 1985
Department of English, Ripon College, Assistant Professor, 1975-79
 

Books:

The Art and Science of Victorian History (Ohio University Press, 1985).

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Detecting Social Order (Twayne, 1995).

Editions:

Abbott, Edwin Abbott. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Oxford World Classics. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.

Selected Articles and Essays

"Domesticity and Discipline in Gissing's Short Fiction," forthcoming in Gissing and Women. Ed. Christine Huguet and Simon James.

"Selecting Heroines: Gissing and Sexual Science." Victorian Newsletter 98 (Fall 2000): 1-5.

"Hardy's Rustics and the Construction of Class." Victorian Literature and Culture 28.2 (Fall 2000): 411-25.

"Eliza Burt Gamble: Revising the Descent of Woman," in Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, ed. Barbara Gates and Ann Shteir (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 147-63.

"Darwin and the Anthropologists: Sexual Selection and Its Discontents," in Sexualities in Victorian Britain, ed. Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams (Indiana University Press, 1996), 79-95; rpt. from Victorian Studies 37.2 (Winter 1994): 287-306.

"Animal Analogies and the Construction of Class," Nineteenth-Century Studies 8 (1994): 89-103.

"Evolutionary Physiognomy and Darwin's Expression of the Emotions," Victorian Review 18.2 (Winter 1992): 1-27.

"Sherlock Holmes Codes the Social Body," ELH 57(1990): 685-87.

"Saved by Science?: the Mixed Messages of Stoker's Dracula," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 31 (1989): 273-87.

"Abbott's Flatland: Scientific Imagination and 'Natural Christianity,'" 289-306 in Energy and Entropy: Science and Culture in Victorian Britain, ed. Patrick Brantlinger (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988); rpt. from Victorian Studies 28 (Spring 1985): 473-90.