Eleanor Salotto

Department of English
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA 24595
434-381-6159
esalotto@sbc.edu

TITLE

Professor of English and Chair of the Department; Director of the Film Studies Program

Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D., English, May, 1995

Dissertation: The Engendering of the Subject in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Temple University, M.A., English, with Highest Honors, May, 1986

Temple University, B.A., English/French, magna cum laude, May, 1984

Oxford University, Summer Research Fellow in The English Detective Story, 1999

William Goldman Foundation Fellowship, 1988-1993

Bryn Mawr College Senior Dissertation Fellowship, 1990-1991

Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, 1989-1990

Temple University, Rome Institute Tuition Scholarship, 1983

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Sweet Briar College, Assistant Professor of English, 1998-present

Wabash College, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 1997-1998

University of Pennsylvania, Instructor in English, 1994-1996

Trenton State College, Instructor in Women’s Studies, 1994

Haverford College, Instructor in English, 1988-1993

Cabrini College, Instructor in English, 1987-1988

SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT:

Autobiography; The Monster in Literature, Art, and Film; British Romanticism; The Multicultural Novel; Composition; 19th-Century British Literature & Culture; Detective, Crime, and Passion Novels; The Novel of Development; Feminist Theory; Victorian Intellectual Thought; Gender Studies; Women and Literature; Literary Theory; World Literature

TEACHING INTERESTS:

British Romanticism, Film Theory, Composition, Contemporary Literature, The English Novel, Feminist and Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Modernism, Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, The Novel of Development, Women Writers

"Shopping for an 'I': Feminine Identity in Zola's The Ladies' Paradise." Representations of Women in French Naturalist Fiction. New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming 1999.

"Villette and the Perversions of Feminine Identity." Female Perversions. Ed. Susan Bernardo and Robert L. Mazzola, forthcoming in 1998

"Detecting Esther Summerson’s Secrets: Dickens’s Bleak House of Representation." Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume 25, Number 2, 1997

"Frankenstein and Dis(re)membered Identity." Journal of Narrative Technique, Fall 1994

"Articulating Plot and Identity in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend," under consideration at Dickens Studies Annual

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

"Shopping for an 'I': Identity in Zola's The Ladies' Paradise." Consumption: Fantasy, Success and Desire, John Moores University, Liverpool, October 1998

"Disfiguring Plot and Identity in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend." Dickens Society Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, October 1997

"The Intersection of Plot and Identity in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend." Narrative: An International Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, May 1997

"Narrative Mimicry in Dickens’s Bleak House." An Age of Equipoise? Re-assessing mid-Victorian Britain, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leeds, July 1996

"Villette and the Uncanny Subject." Psychoanalysis-Feminisms, University of Florida, Gainesville, May 1994 (By Invitation)

"Villette’s Uncanny Plot." Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Courtland, New York (By Invitation), October 1993

"Frankenstein and Dis-membered Identity." Narrative: an International Conference, Albany, New York, May 1993

"Esther Summerson and the Bleak House of Representation." Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1993

"The Articulation of Plot in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend." Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, New York, March 1992

"Going Off the Line: Representing Diana in Meredith’s Diana of the Crossways." University of Pennsylvania Conference on Women’s Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1990

MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
Penn Mid-Atlantic Seminar for the Study of Women and Society
Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Zola International Society

 

 

 

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