⚫ 소개:

I received my BA in English language and Literature from Northwest University, MA in English Literature and Language after 1525 from King’s College London, and PhD in Nineteenth-century British Fiction from University of Washington. I taught English in Xi’an Jiaotong University before coming to Korea and have been teaching at HUFS since 2014.

⚫ 최종 학력:

PhD in Nineteenth-century British Fiction from University of Washington

⚫ 주요 연구 분야:

I am primarily interested in how the novel as a verbal art form develops by looking at the interplay/tension between the content and the form with a special focus on the participation and contribution of women novelists from Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot to Virginia Woolf.

My field of specialization: Eighteenth-century and Nineteenth-century British Fiction, World Literature, Life Writing

⚫ 주요 강의:

Introduction to Fiction, Modern British Fiction, British and American Literature and Mythology

⚫ 주요 논문 및 저서:

1. “Mountains in Labour: Eliot’s ‘Atrocities’ and Woolf's Alternatives.” Language and Literature, 27.4 (2018) 258-270.

2. “A Science for Verbal Art: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy.” Language Sciences, (2018). http://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2018.05.001

3. “Three Grown-up Problems in Middlemarch: Provincial Conversations as Metonymies for National Ones.” British and American Fiction, 24-2 (2017) 117-135.

4. “The Investigation of Our Better Feelings: Northanger Abbey and the Gothic Imagination.” 19th Century Literature in English, 19.1 (2015) 247-267.

5. “The Two Emmas: Female Education as Return on Capital and as Source of Income.” Feminist Studies in English Literature, 22-3 (2014).

6. “Engendering Voices: The Origins of Polyphony and the Novelization of Political Economy in Gaskell’s North and South.” Journal of English Studies in Korea, 25 (2013) 143-165.

7. “The School of Soft Knacks: Women’s Education and the ‘Marriage of Contrast’ in Mill and Dickens.” 19th Century Literature in English, 17.1 (2013) 139-159.

8. “The Artistic Failure of Victor Frankenstein: Galatea Rejected, Prometheus as a Misfit, and Mary Shelly’s Critique of Romantic Hellenism.” Journal of English Studies in Korea, 23 (2012) 139-158.

9. “Speaking Subjects and Surplus Objects: Womanly Words in Dickens and Gaskell.” English Language and Literature, Vol. 57 No. 3 (2011) 457-72.

10. “Fanny’s Price: Family and Church as Marketable Values.” 19th Century Literature in English, 15.2 (2011) 313-332.