Author Archive
Deanna Kreisel
Deanna Kreisel specializes in Victorian literature and culture; ecocriticism; feminist, gender, and queer theory; and utopian studies. She is the author of Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy (University of Toronto Press, 2012), and has published essays in PMLA, ELH, Representations, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a monograph on utopia and sustainability […]
Scott R. MacKenzie
Scott R. MacKenzie works on literature of the long eighteenth century, particularly prose fiction, aesthetics, and political debate on economic matters. His book, Be It Ever So Humble: Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home (U of Virginia Press, 2013), won the Walker Cowen Prize for a study on an eighteenth-century topic. It argues that […]
College in Parchman: Imprisoned men study civil rights behind bars
OXFORD — “I’m a student! I’m a teacher! I’m a scholar! I am capable!” Since 2014, students in the Prison-to-College Pipeline Program have been affirming themselves at the start of each class as professors lead them in this chant. The PTCPP provides college-level courses to incarcerated men and women across the state of Mississippi. The program […]