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Contact Information
370 Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
513 529 5276
mandellc@muohio.edu
http://www.users.muohio.edu/mandellc/
On leave 2009-2010
Laura Mandell
Title
- Professor
Education
- Ph.D., English Literature, Cornell, 1992
- M.A., English Literature, Cornell
- B.A., English and French, University of New Mexico
Teaching Interests
- British romanticism
- Digital media
Research Interests
- Writing in British romanticism and 18th century British literature
- Digital media
- Pedagogy
Selected Publications
- Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain. University of Kentucky Press, 1999.
- “Educational Theory, Web Interactivity, and Romaticism.” Romantic Pedagogy Commons. January 2004.
- “Virtue and Evidence: Catharine Macaulay’s Historical Realism,” special issue ‘Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century’. Ed. Laura Rosenthal. JEMCS. 4.1 (2004). 135-166.
- “The First Women (Psycho-)Analysts, or the Friends of Feminist History,” special issue ‘Feminism in Time.’ Ed Margaret Ferguson, Marshall Brown. MLQ. 65.1 (2004). 69-92.
- “Sacred Secrets: Romantic Biography, Romantic Reform.” Nineteenth-Century Prose. 28.2 (Fall 2001). 28-54.
- “Hemans and the Gift-Book Aesthetic.” Cardiff Corey. 6 (June 2001).
- “‘Those Limbs Disjointed of Gigantic Power’: Barbauld’s Personifications and the (Mis)Attribution of Political Agency.” Studies in Romanticism. 37 (Spring 1998). 27-41.
- “Virtual Encounters: Using an Electronic Mailing List in the Literature Classroom”. Profession 1997. 126-132.
- “Demystifying (with) the Repugnant Female Body: Mary Leapor and Feminist Literary History.” Criticism. 38.4 (Fall 1996). 551-582.
- “Bawds and Merchants: Engendering Capitalist Desires.” ELH. 59.1 (Spring 1992). 107-123.
Web Publications
- “The Poetess Archive.”
- “Technology and the Humanities.”
22 August 2003. - “The Original Author.”
- “Anna Barbauld’s Prose Works.”
- “The Bijou.”
2003.
Work in Progress
Dr. Laura Mandell is currently working on Romantic Melancholy: Technologies of the Self, a book about the effects of print on psychological states that produce the modern self and modern mental illness, and Standing Apart: Objectivity in Enlightenment Feminisms, a book that discusses the necessity of using feminism as a lens for accurately reading history.