• ENGLISH LITERATURE
• ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
• ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
• GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
• LITERATURE, CRITICAL THEORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM
• QUEER THEORY

Deanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English. She is the author of the monograph Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy (Toronto, 2012). She has published essays on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA, ELH, Representations, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel, and elsewhere. She is co-founder of Vcologies, an international working group of humanities scholars working on environmental and ecocritical themes in the nineteenth century. She is co- editor, with Devin Griffiths, of a special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture on "Open Ecologies" and an edited volume of essays, for Cambridge University Press, entitled After Darwin. She is currently working on a book on utopia and sustainability in Victorian culture.