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Linda Hughes

Linda Hughes, Ph.D.

Retired Addie Levy Professor of Literature

Reed Hall 110 (map link)

  • Women's Literature /
  • Gender & Sexuality /
  • British Literature

Education

Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia (1976)
MA, University of Missouri-Columbia (1971)
BA, summa cum laude, Wichita State University (1970)

 

Courses Taught

Undergraduate    Graduate
Introduction to Literature and to Poetry: Great Themes, Diverse Voices Seminars in Victorian Literature (variable focus)
- British Races and Racism 1830-1910
The Victorian Novel Queer Poets, Poems, and Poetics in the Long Nineteenth Century
Wilde Years: Oscar Wilde and the 1890s Victorian Literature and Periodicals
Women Poets and Poetic Tradition 19th-Century Transatlanticism
King Arthur in Modern Literature and Culture Victorian Women Writers
British Literature Since 1800 British Novel II: Undisciplining Victorian Literature

Areas of Focus

19th Century British literature; Transatlantic literature; Transnationality; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Women's Writing

Last Update: 8/19/2022

  • “The Pre-Poetess History of Michael Field: Troubling Poetess History.” Victorian Review Forum, 2022.
  • “Andrew Lang’s Discursive Cosmopolitanism in Longman’s Magazine.” Studies in Scottish Literature 48.1 (2022), 16-24.
  • Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920 : An Anthology, co-edited with Sarah R. Robbins, TCU, and Andrew Taylor, Edinburgh University; Associate Editors Heidi Hakimi-Hood and Adam Nemmers. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
  • Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture series, 2022.
  • “ Vernon Lee: Slow Serialist and Journalist at the Fin de Siècle.” Victorian Literature and Culture 50.1 (Fall 2021), 173-202.
  • Literature in Transition: The 1880s . Ed. Penny Fielding and Andrew Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 2020. 34-52.
  • “Periodical Studies.” Routledge Companion to Victorian Studies. Ed. Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer. London: Routledge, 2020. 140-50.
  • “Reading Poet Amy Levy Through Victorian Newspapers.” Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s: The Victorian Period. Ed. Alexis Easley, Clare Gill, and Beth Rodgers. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 456-69.
  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Poetry , ed. Linda K. Hughes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  • “Enclosing Forms, Opening Spaces: the 1880s Fixed-Verse Revival.” Nineteenth Century
  • Replication in the Long Nineteenth-Century: Re-makings and Reproductions. Ed. Julie Codell and Linda K. Hughes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
  • The Princess and the Generosity of Tennyson’s Imagination.” Linda K. Hughes. Tennyson Research Bulletin (U.K.) 11.2 (November 2018): 110-28.
  • Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture. Ed. Linda K. Hughes and Sarah R. Robbins. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
  • A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi, 4 vol. Ed. Sharon M. Harris and Linda K. Hughes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005.

For a complete bibliography, please see my CV.

  • “The Elegies of Tennyson and Michael Field: Reclaiming and Transcending Loved Remains” (invited address), Inaugural “Global Tennyson” series lecture, sponsored by the Tennyson Society, U.K., 6 October 2022 (international zoom lecture).
  • Logrolling Scotland: Andrew Lang, Scotland, and Discursive Cosmopolitanism in Longman’s Magazine” (invited plenary address), Scottish Cosmopolitanism at the Fin de
  • Siècle project, 24 July 2020 (via Zoom; online recording available at Debates in Scottish Cosmopolitanism at the Fin de Siècle – SCOTTISH COSMOPOLITANISM AT THE FIN DE SIeCLE (glasgow.ac.uk))
  • “Publishing with the Tories: EBB’s ‘Cry’ in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine” (invited), Rhyme and Reform: Victorian Working-Class Poetry and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Cry of the Children” conference, Armstrong Browning Library, Waco, TX, 4-5 October 2018.
  • Seminar Leader (Invited), “Poetics,” North American Victorian Studies Association, St. Petersburg, FL, 11-14 October 2018.
  • “Tennyson, The Princess, and The Generosity of Tennyson’s Imagination,” Annual Tennyson Address (invited), Tennyson Society, Lincoln, England, 8 June 2018.
  • “WHERE is Seriality in Nineteenth-Century Print? The Case of Amy Levy” (invited plenary panel paper), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference, San Francisco, March 1-3, 2018.
  • “Tennyson, The Princess, and Tennyson’s Global Women Readers” (invited keynote), Nineteenth-Century Synergies: Ventures at Home and (Ad)Ventures Abroad conference, Presidency University, Kolkata, India, 22-23 February 2018.
  • “Transnational Print Journeys into French Fixed Verse Forms” (invited lecture), Textual Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle, October 30, 2017.
  • “Women’s Bodies and Books: Portraits of Victorian Women Poets” (invited), Celebrating the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts, Victorian Literature and Art,” University of Delaware, March 17-18, 2017.
  • “The Long Durée of Serial Print Culture” (invited), The New Seriality Studies Symposium, Columbia University, 23 September 2016.
  • “Amy Levy, Vernon Lee, and “New Love, New Life” (invited), A Conference Celebrating Victorian Women Writers in Honor of Linda Peterson, Yale University, 6-7 May 2016.
  • “Prefiguring Future Pasts: Imagined Histories in Victorian Poetic-Graphic Texts, 1860-1910,”  Erasmus Lecture (invited), Westmont College, 7 March 2016.
  • “Narrative Matters” (invited keynote address), Forms and Fashions: A Conference in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Victorian Poetry, West Virginia University, April 19-20, 2013.
  • “Frater, ave? Tennyson and Swinburne” (invited plenary address), “The Young Tennyson,” Tennyson Society bicentenary conference, Lincoln, England, July 17-19, 2009.
  • “Visible Sounds and Auditory Scenes: Word, Image, and Music in Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, and Morris” (invited address), University of Kansas British/American Lecture, Lawrence, KS, November 5, 2007
  • “Transatlantic Cables: American Transmissions to the British Literary Canon” (invited keynote), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies conference, April 19-21, 2007, Kansas City, Missouri
  • “What the Wellesley Index Left Out: Why Poetry Matters to Periodical Studies,” Michael Wolff Lecture (invited keynote), Research Society of Victorian Periodicals, September 15-16, 2006, City University of New York
  • A Border-Crossing Odd Couple: Anna Jameson and Vernon Lee,” British Women Writers Conference, Waco, Texas, May 2022.
  • Practicing Multilingualism on the Periodical Page: Das Chaos, ed. Ottilie von Goethe, 1829-32.” Special session, sponsored by the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals.” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., January 2022.
  • “Erasing the Jewish Body:  George Eliot, Heine, and the Westminster Review,” Research Society of Victorian Periodicals conference, Victoria, British Columbia, 26-29 July 2018.
  • Graduate Professor of the Year (conferred by graduate students in English), 2013, 2005, 2002
  • Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Association Award for Contributions to the Study of British Women Writers, 2012 (biennial award in recognition of scholarship and mentoring) 
  • Donald Gray Prize Honorable Mention for best essay in Victorian studies, North American Victorian Studies Association, 2008 (awarded for “What the Wellesley Index Left Out: Why Poetry Matters to Periodical Studies,” 2007)
  • Robert Colby Prize, 2006 (awarded by the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals to a book making a significant contribution to the study of Victorian periodicals), for Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters (2005).
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (8 months), “Victorian Poetry and Print Culture,” 2006
  • TCU Chief Marshal, 2000-2021
  • Chancellor’s Medal for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity, TCU, 1999 
  • Honors Faculty Recognition Award, TCU, 1999
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Award (verification of periodical citations for The Victorian Serial at the British Newspaper Library), 1989
  • Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund, NEH Interpretive Research Grant (16 months' support to complete The Victorian Serial), 1987-1988

Last Updated: November 19, 2024

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