Dr Wendy Parkins
BA Hons, MA Hons (Sydney), PhD (Murdoch)
| wendy.parkins@otago.ac.nz | |
| Phone | 64 3 479 8333 |
| Fax | 64 3 479 8558 |
| Office | 1S12 First Floor Arts Building Albany Street Dunedin |
| Department of English University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand |
Expertise
Gender and sexuality in British literature and culture from the 19th century onwards; the Victorian novel; William and Jane Morris; feminist theory; cultural studies and the theory of everyday life.
Teaching
ENGL 233 Approaches to Literary Studies
ENGL 331 Literature and Gender
ENGL 473 A Topic in 19th-Century Literature: The Literature of the Fin-de-Siécle
Research and Possible Supervision
I can offer supervision in the following areas: the Victorian novel; women's writing 1800 to the present; fin-de-siècle literature and culture; topics in gender and sexuality; topics in cultural studies and everyday life.
Current Research
I am currently writing a book, Jane Morris and the Burden of History, to be published by Edinburgh University Press.
Publications
Books
Wendy Parkins, Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s: Women Moving Dangerously, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Wendy Parkins and Geoffrey Craig, Slow Living, Oxford: Berg, 2006.
Edited Collections
Wendy Parkins (ed), William Morris and the Art of Everyday Life, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (forthcoming 2010).
Wendy Parkins (ed), Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship, Oxford: Berg, 2002.
Selected Articles & Book Chapters
Wendy Parkins, 'Shall I Be Mother? Motherhood and Domesticity in Popular Culture,' in Joanne Hollows & Stacy Gillis (eds), Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture, New York & London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 65-78.
Wendy Parkins, 'Jane Morris's Invalidism Reconsidered,' Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (Summer 2008).
Wendy Parkins, 'That Venturesome Woman: The Italian Travels of Jane Morris', Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 16 (Fall 2007).
Wendy Parkins, 'Celebrity Knitting and the Temporality of Postmodernity,' Fashion Theory 8.1 (2004): 1-18.
Wendy Parkins, 'Out of Time: Fast Subjects and Slow Living,' Time and Society 13.2/3 (2004): 363-382.
Wendy Parkins, 'Women, mobility and modernity in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South,' Women's Studies International Forum 27.5/6 (2004): 507-519.
Wendy Parkins, 'Moving Dangerously: Mobility and the Modern Woman,' Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 20.1 (2001): 77-92.
Wendy Parkins, 'Protesting Like a Girl: Embodiment, Dissent and Feminist Agency,' Feminist Theory 1.1 (2000): 59-78.
Wendy Parkins, 'Home and Away: The New Woman and Bourgeois Domesticity in Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage,' Women: A Cultural Review 10.1 (1999): 47-55.
Recent Conference Presentations
'Emotions, ethics and sociality in Dickens's Sketches of Young Couples.' Paper presented at 'Dickens and the Voices of Victorian Culture' conference, University of Verona, Italy, June 2009.