DORICE WILLIAMS ELLIOTT
Department of English
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Office: (785) 864-2527
E-mail: delliott@ku.edu
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, English Department, University of Kansas, 2002-
Chair, English Department, University of Kansas, 2003-2009
Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Kansas, 1996-2002
EDUCATION
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, English Literature, May 1994
Dissertation: "The Angel Out of the House: Women's Philanthropy and the Redefinition of Gender Roles in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England"
Advisers: Professors Mary Poovey and Frances Ferguson
M.A. The University of Utah, English and American Literature, March 1986
B.A. Brigham Young University, English, summa cum laude and Highest Honors, May 1973
HONORS AND AWARDS
Shirley Cundiff Haines and Jordan L. Haines Faculty Research Fellowship in English, 2012
Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 2011
W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, 2010
Senior Administrative Fellow, University of Kansas, 2006-07
Mabel Fry Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 2001
BOOKS
“Filling in the Blank: Class, Nation, and Literary Form in Australian Convict Literature.” Work in progress.
The Angel Out of the House: Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002.
ARTICLES
"Gifts Always Come with Strings Attached: Teaching Mansfield Park in the Context of Gift Theory, MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Mansfield Park, ed. Marcia McClintock Folsom (New York: Modern Language Association. Forthcoming.
“Charles Reade: The British "Harriet Beecher Stowe" and the Affect of Sensation,” Transatlantic Sensations, eds. John Barton and Jennifer Phegley. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. Forthcoming.
"Unsettled Status in Australian Squatter Novels," Victorian Settler Narratives: Emigrants, Cosmopolitans, and Returnees in Nineteenth-Century Literature, ed. Tamara Silvia Wagner. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. 23-40.
“Class Act: Servants and Mistresses in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell,” Elizabeth Gaskell;Victorian Culture and the Art of Fiction: Essays for the Bicentenary,, ed. Sandro Jung. Ghent, Belgium and Lebanon, N.H.: Academia Press, 2010. 113-130.
“The Gift of an Education: Sarah Trimmer’s Oeconomy of Charity and the Sunday School Movement,” The Culture of the Gift, eds. Linda Zionkowski and Cynthia Klekar. New York: Palgrave, 2009, 107-22.
“Convict Servants and Middle-Class Mistresses,” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 16, no. 2 (2005): 163-187.
“Ways of Teaching about Free Indirect Discourse in Emma,” MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Emma, ed. Marcia McClintock Folsom. New York: Modern Language Association, 2004. 120-126.
“Servants and Hands: Conflicting Class Loyalties in Victorian Factory Novels,” Victorian Literature and Culture (2000): 377-390.
“Feminist Criticism of Narrative” and “The Victorian Novel of Social Criticism,” Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Paul Schellinger. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. Vol. 1, 404-07 and Vol. 2, 1232-35.
"'The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession': Hannah More and Women's Philanthropic Work," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 19 (1995): 179-204.
"Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall and Female Philanthropy," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 35, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 535-553; rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, ed. Jelena Krstovic, Vol. 44 (December 1998).
"The Marriage of Classes in Gaskell's North and South," Nineteenth-Century Literature, 49 (June 1994): 21-49.
“Hearing the Darkness: The Narrative Chain in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," English Literature in Transition, 28, no. 2 (1985): 162-181.
SELECTED PAPERS DELIVERED
“'Transported to Botany Bay': Social Class in Nineteenth-Century Convict Broadsides," North American Victorian Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2010
“Squatters and Settlers in 19th-Century Anglo-Australian Novels,” Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Iowa City, April 2010
“Transporting the Novel: Writing Convicts in Australia,” The Novel and Its Borders: University of Aberdeen Centre for the Study of the Novel, Aberdeen, UK, July 2008
“Controlling Sex and Crime in Australia: Adultery, Bigamy, Homosexuality, and Transported Convicts,” Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Chicago, April 2008
"’Charitable Guerillas’ and ‘Expansive Hearts’: Class and Women's Philanthropy in Imperial Civil Societies,” British Women Writers Association, University of Indiana, Bloomington, March 2008
"The Perennial Appeal of Jane Austen: Subversive, Seductive, and Relevant in the 21st Century," Keynote Speech for Kansas City Missouri Public Library "Jane-uary" celebration, January 2008
"Punishment and the Stage: Charles Reade's It Is Never Too Late to Mend," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Missouri at Kansas City, April, 2007.
"Class Act: Servants and Mistresses in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell," Conference on the Life and Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, University of Salford, Manchester, U.K., September, 2006
“Philosophy, Gender, and Civil Society,” International Conference on Religion and Civil Society, WZB: Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany, May 2006 (invited speaker)
“Maintaining Privacy in a Household with Servants,” Cultural Studies Symposium: Privacy (and Secrecy), Kansas State University, March 2006
“Writing Australian Convicts,” North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Virginia, October 2005
“Reformed, Respectable, and Rich: Australia in Two Victorian Sensation Novels,” Australasian Victorian Studies Association/Dickens Project, University of Sydney, Australia, July 2004
“Adultery, Bigamy, and Homosexuality: Sex and Reform in Australian Convict Fiction,” Cultural Studies Symposium: Sex and the Body Politic, Kansas State University, March 2004
“The Woman’s Sphere in Australian Convict Fiction,” Modern Language Association, San Diego, December 2003
“‘Not According to Nature’: Changing Attitudes toward Sex and Age in the Nineteenth Century,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and the Dickens Project, University of California at Santa Cruz, March, 2003
“‘She Sat Down to Think and Be Miserable’: Representing Consciousness through Free Indirect Discourse in 19th-Century Fiction,” Cultural Studies Symposium: Brain Power: Intelligence, Emotion, Cultural Fantasy, Kansas State University, March, 2003
“Reformed Convicts Make Good Servants: Mary Vidal’s Tales for the Bush,” 18th & 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April, 2002
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU
Graduate Seminar in 19th-Century Literature: Empire and Imperialism
Graduate Seminar in 19th-Century Literature: Victorian Literature and Social Class
Graduate Seminar in Literary Criticism: Historical Criticism and the Social-Problem Novel
Graduate Course in Studies in 19th-Century Psychology and Literature
Advanced Course in Women and Literature: Women in Victorian England
Advanced Course in Crime and Exile: Australian Convict Fiction
Practicum Collegium English II (practicum for new graduate teaching assistants)
Honors Proseminar: “From Rags to Respectability”--An Interdisciplinary Seminar in 19th- & 20th-Century English and American History and Literature (team-taught with Prof. Ann Schofield of American Studies and Women’s Studies)
Honors Proseminar: “Rags to Riches”--Cultural Capital and Social Mobility in English & American Literature
The Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Major Authors: Jane Austen
Major Authors: Charles Dickens
Major Authors: Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell
The British Novel
Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory
Major British Writers After 1800
Freshman-Sophomore Honors Proseminar: Telling Stories
Introduction to Fiction