Sara Pearson Ph.D.Assistant Professor of English; Coordinator of First-Year EnglishDepartment: English; MAIH Email: Sara.Pearson@twu.ca Area of Expertise: Nineteenth-century British literature; the Brontës; the genre of the novel; Classical and Biblical backgrounds of English literature Research: The relationship of religion, gender, and authority in the novels of the Brontës; the use of biblical allusion in Charlotte Brontë's works; the literary relationship between Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens Education: B.A.(Hons.) in Classical Greek (University of Victoria); M.A. in Classics (University of Victoria); M.C.S. in New Testament Studies (Regent College); M.A. in English (Boston University); Ph.D. in English (Boston University). Selected Publications and Presentations:Book Chapter “Constructing Masculine Narrative: Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor.” Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000. Ed. Sarah S.G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak. 83-99. Book Reviews Review of Joanne Wilkes, Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Critical Reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2010) in Brontë Studies (forthcoming). Review of Monika Class and Terry F. Robinson, Transnational England: Home and Abroad, 1780-1860 (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009) in Brontë Studies (forthcoming). Review of Monica Flegel, Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England: Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC (Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2009) in Brontë Studies 35.3 (2010): 297-298. Review of Judy Giles, ‘Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)’. The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com). Subscription website; published 17 July 2001 in Brontë Studies 35.2 (2010): 176-177. Review of Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells, The Brontës in the World of the Arts (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008) in Brontë Studies 34.3 (2009): 269-271. Review of Shanyn Fiske, Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination (Athens: Ohio UP, 2008) in Brontë Studies 34.3 (2009): 273-275. Review of Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman, and Antony H. Harrison, eds., A Companion to Victorian Poetry (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) in Brontë Studies 34.3 (2009): 276-277. Review of Beth Torgerson, Reading the Brontë Body: Disease, Desire and the Constraints of Culture (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) in Brontë Studies 31.2 (July 2006): 172-174. Conference Presentations May 10, 2007 “Laughter and the Sacred: Eschatological Echoes in Chaucer’s The Miller’s Tale,” paper presented at the conference Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime, Trinity Western University, Langley, BC. April 7, 2004 “Structuring Authority in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley,” paper presented at the conference The Brontës and Their World, Pace University, White Plains, New York. October 19, 2001 “The Homecoming Hero: Family and Structure in The Odyssey,” paper presented at the 13th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Conference, Medford, Massachusetts. Notable Accomplishments and Experiences:
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