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Juliette
Wells
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., Yale University
recent publications (click on each image for more details)
The Brontës in the World of the Arts, ed. Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells (Ashgate, Sept. 2008)
"Oprah in the Public Library," in The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah's Book Club
(SUNY Press, Oct. 2008)
Enriched E-book edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice for Penguin Classics (May 2008)
other recent publications (click on each title for more details or a link to electronic text, if available)
"True Love Waits: Austen and the Christian Romance in the Contemporary U.S.,"
Persuasions On-Line special issue on "The Global Jane Austen," spring 2008
"A Fearsome Thing to Behold?": The Accomplished Woman in Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice," Persuasions On-Line special issue, spring 2007"Mothers of Chick Lit?": Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History,"
in Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction (Routledge, 2006)
"An Eyre-Less Affair?: Jasper Fforde's Seeming Elision of Jane Eyre,"
in A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre (Rodopi, 2006)“‘In Private, for Your Own Delight’: George Eliot and Amateur Artistry,”
in Auto-Poetica: Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-Century British and American Fiction (Lexington, 2006)
“A Harpist Arrives at Mansfield Park: Music and the Moral Ambiguity of Mary Crawford,”
in Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 28 (2006)“Beyond the Joint Hire: Options and Strategies for Academic Couples,”
in Modern Language Studies 35 (2005)“‘In Music She Had Always Used to Feel Alone in the World’: Jane Austen, Solitude, and the Artistic
Woman,”
in Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 26 (2004)
conference presentations
“Shades of Austen in Ian McEwan’s Atonement”
Jane Austen Society of North America, Chicago, Oct. 2008“Women on the Market: Prostitutes, Authoresses, and Accomplished Ladies in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the
White”
“Neo-Victorianism: The Politics and Aesthetics of Appropriation," University of Exeter, U.K., Sept. 2007“Everybody’s Jane: Austen’s Adventures in American Popular Fiction, 1996-2006”
Study Day on Jane Austen and Contemporary Culture, Chawton House Library, UK, June 2007“‘A Fearsome Thing to Behold?’: The Accomplished Woman in Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice”
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association, Lexington, KY, April 2007“A Harpist Arrives at Mansfield Park: Music and the Moral Ambiguity of Mary Crawford”
Jane Austen Society of North America, Tucson, Oct. 2006“Tertius Lydgate, Recalcitrant Colleague: Learning Academic Style from Middlemarch”
Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2005“The Artist, the Amateur, and the Accomplished Woman”
International Association of Word and Image Studies, Philadelphia, Sept. 2005“‘That Kind of Facility which Springs from the Absence of Any High Standard’: Gender and Amateur in George Eliot”
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association, Lafayette, LA, April 2005“‘In Music She Had Been Always Used to Feel Alone in the World’: Anne Elliot’s Music-Making in Social, Literary, and
Personal Contexts”
Jane Austen Society of North America, Los Angeles, Oct. 2004“George Eliot and the Victorian Amateur”
North American British Music Studies Association, Oberlin, June 2004“Charlotte Brontë and the ‘Thrill of Artist-Delight’”
“The Brontës and Their World," Pace University, NY, April 2004“Transgressing ‘The Profession of Ladies’: Accomplishments, Authorship, and the Case of Jane Austen”
“Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1830," Southampton, UK, July 2003“Profitable and Purposeful Performances: Austen’s Accomplished Women”
Jane Austen Society of North America, Seattle, Oct. 2001