Elizabeth Godke Koonce
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Women's Studies, Gothic Fiction, Middle Eastern Women Writers
Office: Ellis 340
Office Phone: 593-2796
Email: kooncee@ohio.edu
Degrees
PhD, English, Ohio University 2006
M.A. Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University 1992
B.A. English Louisiana State University 1990
B.A. French Louisiana State University 1990
Publications
“Rumor, Sensational Invasion, and the Rewriting of British Legal History in Anthony Trollope’s The Eustace Diamonds.” The World as Global Agora: Critical Perspectives on Public Space. Eds. Larbi Touaf and Soumia Boutkhil. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar’s Publishing, 2008. 170-187.
Curriculum Vitae
“Taking a Grand Tour: Revising the Womanly Ideal and Annotating Empire in Michael Field’s Picture Poetry,” Paper presented at the Sixteenth Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writer’s Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 29, 2007.
“Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Margaret Oliphant, and her “Sensational” Publishing Enterprise.” Paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 2006.
“The Sensational Public Invasion and Lizzie’s Sensational Rewriting of British Legal History in Anthony Trollope’s The Eustace Diamonds.” Paper presented at the Public Space: Text and Context Conference, Mohamed I University, Oujda, Morocco, March 16, 2007.
“Margaret Oliphant’s Salem Chapel: Sensation and Conversation” Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writer’s Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 23, 2006.
“The Revolution from Within: Domestic Deviance in Mary Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret.” Paper presented at the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association, Montreal, Canada, August 14, 2005.
“Reading, Writing, Thinking – And Making Friends: Linked English 152 and Tier 2 Courses.” Roundtable discussion panel member in Ohio University’s Third Annual Spotlight on Learning Conference, Athens, OH, March 8, 2004.
“Inappropriate Reading Practices and Unacceptable Behavior in George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss.” Invited speaker at The Castle, Marietta, OH, April 25, 2001.
“Victorian Divorce Practices and Women’s Rights in Anne Bronte’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall.” Invited speaker at The Castle, Marietta, OH, March 15, 2000.
“Lady Mary Braddon and the Sensation Novel Debate.” Invited speaker at The Castle, Marietta, OH, April 28, 1999.
“The Victorian Gothic Novel: The Skeleton is Out of the Closet of Victorian Respectability.” Paper presented at the Culture and Influence of the Gothic Revival Conference, Miami University, Oxford, OH, Sept. 18, 1998.
“Lucy Snowe’s Attempts to Write a Script for her Life in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette,” Paper presented at the Fifth Annual 18th- and 19th -century British Women Writers Conference, Columbia, SC, March 22, 1996.
Courses
ENG 466: International Authors ("Middle Eastern Women Writers")
ENG 464: English Authors ("Oscar Wilde Meets Mrs. Grundy")
ENG 445: Special Topics: The Female Gothic Tradition
ENG 325: Women and Literature
ENG 314: English Literature 1800-1900 ("The Fascinating Fin de Siecle")
ENG 314: English Literature 1800-1900 ("Empire and its Discontents")
ENG 308J: Advanced Composition
ENG 306J: Women and Writing
ENG 305J: Technical Writing
ENG 305J: Technical Writing for Engineers
ENG 271: Special Topics: Gothic Literature and Horror Fiction
ENG 250: Textual Analysis
ENG 203: Critical Approaches to Drama
ENG 201: Critical Approaches to Fiction
ENG 200: Introduction to Literature
ENG 153: Writing and Reading: Special Topics (Fairy Tales)
ENG 153: Writing and Reading: Special Topics (Play)
ENG 153A: Freshman Composition: Gender
ENG 152: Writing and Reading
ENG 151: Freshman Composition
UC 110: Learning Strategies
WGS 100: Introduction to Women's Studies