Ellen Harrington
Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator

Office: HUMB 260
Phone: 460-7326
Summer Office Hours: by appointment. Dr. Harrington is on leave in August and September, 2010. Please contact the English office for assistance.
eharrington@usouthal.edu
Areas of Interest:

Victorian British Literature, Detective and Sensation Fiction, Short Story and Novel Genres, Gender Studies


Spring 2010 Classes:

EH 216 Survey of British Literature II (2 Sections)

Graduate Program Information


Recent Publications:

Articles

"The 'test of feminine investigation' in Orczy's Lady Molly of Scotland Yard Stories." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 26.4 (2009): 24-34.

"Nation, Identity, and the Fascination with Forensic Science in Sherlock Holmes and CSI." International Journal of Cultural Studies 10.3 (2007): 365-82.

“The Female Offender, the New Woman, and Winnie Verloc in Conrad’s The Secret Agent.” Forthcoming in The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) Special Issue for the Centenary of The Secret Agent 32.1 (2007).  Simultaneously published in The Secret Agent: Centennial Essays. Eds. A. H. Simmons & J. H. Stape Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.

"From the Lady and the Law to the Lady Detective: Gender and Voice in Collins and Dickens." Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative 6.1 (2006): 19-31.

"Failed Detectives and Dangerous Females: Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Detective Short Story." Journal of the Short Story in English 45 (2005): 13-28.

“The Anarchist’s Wife: Joseph Conrad’s Debt to Sensation Fiction in The Secret Agent.” Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 36.1-2 (2004): 51-63.

"That 'Blood-Stained Inanity': Detection, Repression, and Conrad's The Secret Agent." Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 31:2 (1999): 114-19.

Collection

Editor, Scribbling Women and the Form of the Short Story: Approaches to American and British Short Fiction by Women Writers, a critical anthology of fourteen essays focusing on women American and British short fiction writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lang, 2008.

Reviews and other writing

Joseph Conrad's “Amy Foster.” Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York : Facts on File, 2007.

Book Review of Imperial Desire and Conrad’s Narratives of Difference. Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 36.3 (2004): 251-61.

"Shirley Ann Grau." Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Short Story Writers Since World War II. Eds. Patrick Meanor and Gwen Crane. Second Series. Detroit : Gale, 2000.