Joseph McLaughlin
Education
Ph.D., Duke University
M.A., Duke University
A.B., Georgetown University
About Joseph McLaughlin
While my central research concentrations continue to be Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Literature and Theory, in recent years I have taught courses on British Literature since 1900, history of the book, colonial and postcolonial ecologies, literary theory (particularly Frankfurt School Theory), and global literatures. I am the co-editor of the Series in Victorian Studies at 51ĀŅĀ× Press. My current research project explores adaptations of Lewis Carollās Alice books in a variety of media from the long 1960s.
Scholarly Focus
- British Literature since 1800
- Postcolonial Literature & Theory
- London in Literature
- Ecological Approaches to Literature
- Literary Theory
- History of the Book
- Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Publications
Books
Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.
Articles and Book Chapters
āāWhat is the use of a bookā¦without pictures?ā: Teaching Illustration and Book History with the Alice Books.ā Forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Lewis Carrollās Aliceās Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There. MLA Approaches to Teaching Series.
āLondonās Burning: The Japanese Village and the Metropolitan Construction of Modernity,ā Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (February 2008).
āHolmes and the Range: Frontiers Old and New in A Study in Scarletā, Genre 25:1 (spring 1992), 113-35.
Selected Book Reviews
Barbara Black, Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 42:5 (2020), 589-91.
Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, and Catherine Waters, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens, forthcoming in Victorian Studies 63:1 (Autumn 2020), 117-19.
Kate Flint, ed., The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature, Victorian Studies 58:1 (Autumn 2015), 133-35).
Hazel Mackenzie and Ben Winyard eds., Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850-1870, in Nineteenth-Century Contexts 37:1 (February 2015), 84-87.
Jacky Bratton, The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and Mapping of Gender in London, 1830-1870, in Nineteenth-Century Contexts 35:1 (February 2013), 84-86.
Tanya Agathocleous, Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century: Visible City, Invisible World, in Review 19 (July 3, 2011): http://www.nbol-19.org/view_doc.php?index=150.
Selected Conference Presentations
āChristina Rossetti War Poet: Gothic Orientalism in āIn the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857.ā EVENT 2024: North American Victorian Studies Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, September 2024.
āDropping Out with Alice: Wonderland and the Counterculture.ā International Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, Durham University, Durham UK, July 2024.
āThe Basement of Babel or, Aliceās Adventures in the Cold War: Warren Weaver, Machine Translation, and Universal Childhood.ā Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, Miami University, Cincinnati, OH, March 2024.
āDickens, Mayhew, and the Crisis of Trust,ā North American Victorian Studies Conference, Arizona State University, Phoenix, November 2016.
āEscape from London?: The Suburbanizing Impulse in Our Mutual Friend,ā invited talk at one-day conference, āInter-polar London: Between the Extremes of the Nineteenth-Century Metropolisā, Queen Mary, University of London, April 24, 2015.
āCoal, Coffee, Combustion and the Novel Energies of Bleak House,ā Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, University of Houston, Houston, TX, March 2014.
Recent Courses Taught (2021-Present)
- ENG 3150: British Literature since 1900, Utopia and Dystopia from Orwell to Ishiguro
- ENG 3550: Global Literatures
- ENG 3990: Literary Theory
- ENG 2010: Introduction to Fiction and Nonfiction
- ENG 7800: Colonial and Postcolonial Ecologies
- ENG 3070J: Research & Writing in English Studies, Book Illustration
- ENG 3490: History of Books and Printing
- ENG 3140: British Literature, 1800-1900, Bleak House and Middlemarch