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Teaching Professor

Contact

  • Office: A108B Tribble Hall
  • Phone: 336-758-4619
  • Email: pykejc@wfu.edu

Degrees

  • PhD Drew University
  • MA Drew University
  • BA Warren Wilson College

Areas of Interest

  • Victorian Literature
  • Scottish Literature and Culture
  • George Eliot
  • Ethnography and Narrative
  • Autobiography and Memoir

Courses Taught

  • ENG 760 Victorian Sensation
  • ENG 700 Teaching Internship 
  • ENG 360: Studies in Victorian Literature
  • ENG 302: Victorian Fairytales and the Nation
  • ENG 290 Foundations in Literary Criticism
  • ENG 150 Victorian Detective Fiction

Selected Publications

  • “You couldn’t forget her if you saw her”: Following the path of Little Red Riding Hood into the “wildness” of Adam Bede. Current project, in progress.
  • I am Collecting Beautiful Objects”: Michel Gondry’s Taxidermy of Emotions. In Refocus the
    International Director: The Films of Michel Gondry.
    Edited by Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby.
    University of Edinburgh Press, 2020.
  • “’On the South England, on the West Eternity’: Mapping Boundlessness in Modern Scottish
    Fiction.” Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Narrative, and World Literature, R. Tally editor.
    Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.
  • “Taxidermy, Victorian Stillness, and Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend,19: Interdisciplinary
    Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (19)
    , DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/ntn.701
  • Writer for the Journal of Victorian Culture Online, pieces on crime, adaptation, and taxidermy.