Melissa Free
Graduate Student
Teaching Interests
Victorian literature and culture, fin-de-siècle literature and culture, Edwardian literature and culture, postcolonial studies, gender and women’s studies, South African literature
Research Interests
same as teaching
Publications
Book Contributions
- Free, Melissa. "Freaks That Matter: The Dolls’ Dressmaker, the Doctor’s Assistant, and the Limits of Difference." Victorian “Freaks”: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain. Ed. Marlene Tromp. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2008. 259-82.
Journal Articles
- Free, Melissa. ""Who is GC?" Misprizing Gabriel Conroy in Joyce's "The Dead"." Joyce Studies Annual (2009): forthcoming.
- Free, Melissa. "Relegation and Rebellion: The Queer, the Grotesque, and the Silent in the Fiction of Carson McCullers." Stuides in the Novel 40.4 (2008): forthcoming.
- Free, Melissa. "“Dirty Linen”: Legacies of Empire in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48.4 (2006): 340-71.
- Free, Melissa. "Un-Erasing Crusoe: Farther Adventures in the Nineteenth Century." Book History 9 (2006): 89-130.
Reviews
- Free, Melissa. "Primus Inter Pares, and Other Contradictory Convictions." Rev. of The Art of Teaching.Pedagogy 6.1 (2006): 165-72.
