Shari Hodges Holt, Ph. D. Instructional Assistant Professor of English The University of Mississippi

Education

Courses Taught

Teaching Materials

Research

 

Education

• Ph.D., University of Mississippi (2000) Specialization in nineteenth-century British literature with secondary research in film studies
• M.A., University of Memphis (1989) Concentration in Victorian Literature and Renaissance Drama
• B.A. (Honors), Magna Cum Laude, University of Memphis (1986)

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Teaching and Research Interests

• Film adaptations as critical "readings" of literary texts; pedagogical implications of using popular culture appropriations (including film adaptations, music, comics, television) of literary texts in the interpretation of literature.
• Nineteenth-century British novelists (particularly Dickens, Ouida, Stoker, the Brontes, and Austen); Gothic literature; postcolonial and feminist revisions of nineteenth-century Gothic texts.
• Computer technology in composition and literature classes; designing web-enhanced and online courses.
• Shakespeare in performance; Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (historical reconstruction in London, England).
• Programs in English Studies Abroad (England, Scotland, and Ireland).

 

Teaching Materials

• Statement of Teaching Philosophy
• Sample Course Design for English 390, British Masterworks: Literature of the Supernatural
• Sample Teaching Exercises for Film and Renaissance Drama
• Flyer for ENGL436: Major Author of Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Dickens)
• Sample Writing Projects for Freshman Composition

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Writing and Research

Selected Publications & Conference Papers

Book

Ouida The Phenomenon: Evolving Social, Political, and Gender Concerns in Her Fiction. Co-author Natalie Schroeder. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.

 

Articles

"'Transylvania is Not England': Whitby as Mental Landscape in Bram Stoker's Dracula." In preparation.

"'Please Sir, I Want Some More': Clive Donner's Marxist Adaptation of Oliver Twist." In review.

"Dickens from a Postmodern Perspective: Alfonso Cuaron’s Great Expectations for Generation X." Dickens Studies Annual 38 (2007): 69-92.

"The Gin Epidemic:  Gin Distribution as a Means of Control and Profit in Dickens’s Early Nonfiction and Oliver Twist." Dickens Studies Annual 36 (2005): 1-32.

 

Conference Papers

"Cultural Intersections: The Meeting of Victorian, Modern, and Postmodern Worlds in Ouida's Fiction." Ouida Centenary Conference, Kingston University, London, England, September 2008.

"YouTube, YouRead, YouWrite: Video Podcasting, YouTube, and Digital Media Intertextuality in the Literature Classroom." 65th Annual South Central Modern Language Association Meeting, San Antonion, Texas, November 2008.

"Ouida’s Female Gothic: Pestilence, Death, and Desire in In Maremma."  Thirteenth Annual 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Conference, Lafayette, Louisiana, March 2005.

"Incorporating Interactive Multimedia Technologies in Online Instruction."  Selected by Provost to represent Ole Miss Online at Creating Futures Through Technology Conference, Biloxi, Mississippi, March 2003.

"Text and 'Culture-Text':  Film Adaptations in the Literature Classroom."  College English Association Thirty-First Annual Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, April 2000.

 

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