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Faculty Profile

Deanna K Kreisel

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English
Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Environmental Studies
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C-128 Boundurant Hall
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-7439
Joined UM: July 1, 2019

Areas of Expertise

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

Brief Bio

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.

Degrees

PhD
English
Northwestern University (1995)