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