Deanna Kreisel
Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Environmental Studies
Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Environmental Studies program
Research Interests
Victorian literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, environmentalism
Biography
Deanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies. She is the author of Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy, as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA, Representations, ELH, Novel, Mosaic, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor, along with Devin Griffiths, of a special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture on “Open Ecologies” as well as the volume After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century from Cambridge University Press. Her current book project is about ecological mourning and utopia.
Courses Taught
- Eng 226 Survey of British Literature Since the 18th Century
- Eng 338 The Victorian City and Urban Environments
- Gst 382 Intro to Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Eng 439 Victorian Ecotopia and Apocalypse
- Eng 494 Environmental Literature and the Grief Aesthetic
- Eng 721 Victorian Environmentalisms
- Eng 731 Creative Criticism
Education
Ph.D. English, Northwestern University (1995)