Joseph McLaughlin
Professor
Department Chair
Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Modernism; Postcolonial
Office: Ellis 383
Office Phone: 593-2752
Email: mclaughj@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., Duke University
M.A., Duke University
A.B., Georgetown University
Publications
Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.
“Holmes and the Range: Frontiers Old and New in A Study in Scarlet”, Genre 25:1 (spring 1992), 113-35.
Rev. of Chris Bongie, Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siecle, Conradiana 26: 2-3 (autumn 1994), 225-29.
Curriculum Vitae
Select Conference Presentations:
Yellowface Minstrelsy: The Mikado, Blackface, and the Victorian Culture Market,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Oregon, April 2001.
“Modernist and Postmodernist Conceptions of Race,” New Modernisms Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 2000.
“Re-Gendering the Harem: James Greenwood’s “A Night in the Workhouse,” Monuments and Dust Conference, Institute for Historical Research, University College, London. July 1999.
“‘Beautiful For Ever’: Madame Rachel and the Painted Faces of Imperial London,” Cultural Studies Symposium, Kansas State University. March 1999.
“Out of Egypt: Moses, Belzoni, Boz.” Monuments and Dust Conference, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia. April 1998.
“Fear in a Handful of Soap: Commodity Imperialism in Shaw’s Pygmalion.” Cultural Studies Symposium, Kansas State University. March 1998.
“Penelope Lively meets Margaret Thatcher; or, Literary Multiculturalism and Urban Gentrification.” College English Association of Ohio, Columbus, OH. April 1997.
“Empire and East End Gentrification.” Cultural Studies Symposium, Kansas State University. March 1997.
Courses
English 515/773A: "Victorientalism; or Turning Japanese"
English 515/773B: "Victorian Dirt" Tier III: Darwin Among the Poets: England in 1859
English 460: Realism and Its Discontents
English 399: Literary Theory
English 307J: Writing and Research in English Studies
English 314: Nineteenth-Century British Literature