Susan Hamilton
Professor
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Phone:
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780.492.7841
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Email:
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susan.hamilton@ualberta.ca
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Office:
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4-49 Humanities Centre
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Office Hours:
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By appointment
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Address:
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University of Alberta
4-49 Humanities Centre
Edmonton, AB
Canada T6G 2E5
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BA McMaster, MA Toronto, PhD Hull, England
Supervisory and research interests
I would be happy to supervise students in any of the following areas: nineteenth century literature and cultural studies, women's literary history, Victorian and early 20thc feminisms, Victorian and early 20thC journalism, nineteenth century literature of humanitarian reform, and the cultural history of animal rights.
Current and/or recent supervisions include: the language of spirituality in late Victorian feminist writing; the workhouse and 19thC print culture; 19thC animal rights and the idea of conduct; early 19thC Canadian periodicals.
Courses taught
My undergraduate teaching regularly includes courses in early and late Nineteenth Century British Literature and Culture, and the narrativisation of history. Recent graduate courses include "Victorian Feminisms and the Press" and "Nineteenth Century Humanitarian Narratives."
Representative publications
"Reading and the Popular Critique of Science in the Victorian Anti-vivisection Press: Frances Power Cobbe’s Writing for the Victoria Street Society," Victorian Review, forthcoming.
“Women’s Voices and Public Debate” Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914. Edited by Joanne Shattock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
"Marketing Antifeminism: Eliza Lynn Linton's' 'Wild Women' series and the possibilities of periodical signature," in Anti-Feminism and the Victorian Novel. Edited by Tamara Wagner, (Cambria, 2009).
Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
[Editor with Janice Schroeder] Women's Education in Britain, 1840 -1900. 6 volumes. History of Feminism Series. Routledge, 2007.
Editor, Animal Welfare and Anti-Vivisection, 1870 - 1910: Nineteenth-Century British Woman's Mission. 3 volumes. London: Routledge, 2004.
Editor, Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors: Nineteenth-Century Writing by Women on Women. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 1995, 2nd edition, 2004.
Remarks
I am currently working on a project, tentatively titled Everyday Feminism: Serialising Women’s Politics in the Nineteenth Century Press, exploring the intersecting histories of the nineteenth century press and feminism. It asks how shifting ideas about the press through the course of the century – from the educative ideal of the 1840s to the New Journalism of the 1880s, shape serial writing strategies by women journalists exploring women’s political disabilities in this period. Building on prior work, in which I examined the ways in which one feminist journalist used serialization to mount feminist arguments for a mainstream audience, this project considers the impact of emerging concerns about mass behaviour, serialization and the common reader, to explore the ways in which women journalists constituted diverse audiences in the periodical press.