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Alicia Carroll

Alicia Carroll, Associate Professor, received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A specialist in nineteenth-century English fiction, she has published a book, Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in the Works of George Eliot. She is working on two book projects, one entitled Bold Women: Race, Class, Gender and the Art of Quiltmaking and Outdoors in the Novel: Environmental Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. In addition to nineteenth-century fiction, her interests include Cultural Studies and Women's Studies.

Representative Publications

  • "Race, Ethnicity and Identity," in George Eliot in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. (forthcoming)
  • The Quilts of Gee's Bend in Context, Co-Author of Site with Quilts of Gee's Bend in Context Team, Debut date August 2005.
  • Dark Smiles. Ohio University Press: Athens, OH, 2003.
  • "Human Milk in the Modern World: Breastfeeding and the Cult of the Dairy in Adam Bede and Tess of the d'Urbervilles." Women's Studies Special Issue: Ecofeminist Approaches to Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature, March/April 2002, Issue 2.
  • "Production and Vocation: Recent George Eliot Studies," Dickens Studies Annual: Essays in Victorian Fiction.
  • "Arabian Nights: Make-believe, Exoticism, and Desire in Daniel Deronda," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 98 (April 1999).
  • "The Giaour's Campaign: Desire and the Other in Felix Holt: The Radical," Novel: A Forum, on Fiction 30:2 (Winter 1997): 237-258.
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