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143 Upham Hall
Oxford Campus
(513) 529-1234
sadoffdf@muohio.edu
On leave 2007-2008
Dianne Sadoff
Titles
- Professor of English
- Associate Dean: College of Arts and Sciences
Education
- Ph.D. in English, University of Rochester 1973
- M.A, University of Oregon
- B.A, University of Oregon
Teaching Interests
- The English novel—particularly the Victorian novel
- Psychoanalysis
- Literary theory
- Cultural production and consumption
- Women’s Studies
- Film Studies
Research Interests
- Victorian fiction and psychoanalysis
- French neurology
- Film studies
- Discourses of historicism, gender, psychoanalysis and visual culture, all anchored in the 19th century.
Selected Publications
- Victorian Afterlife: Contemporary Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. Co-edited with John Kucich. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
- Sciences of the Flesh: Representing Body and Subject in Psychoanalysis. Stanford University Press, 1998.
- Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates. Co-edited with William E. Cain, New York: MLA Publications, 1994.
- Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot and Brontë on Fatherhood. Baltimore: the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
- “Black Matrilineage: The Case of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 11 (1985): 4-26
- “Storytelling and the Figure of the Father in Little Dorrit”, PMLA, 95 (1980): 234-45.
- “Nature’s Language: Metaphor in the Text of Adam Bede”, Genre, 9 (1978): 411-26
- “Mythopoia, The Moon, and Contemporary Women’s Poetry”, Massachusetts Review, 19 (1978): 93-110.
- “Charles Dickens.” With John Kucich. In the Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed, Nancy Armstrong. Forthcoming.
- “The Father, Castration and Female Fantasy in Jane Eyre.” In Jane Eyre: A Casebook. Ed. Beth Newman. New York: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996. (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism).
Work in Progress
Dianne Sadoff is working on a book: Queen Victoria at the Movies: Film Adapts the Nineteenth-Century Novel.