Meghan Freeman
Assistant Professor
Oregon State University
Moreland 230
2550 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis,
OR
97331 USA
Tel:
541-737-1639
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Credentials
- Ph.D. - Cornell University (2010)
- M.A. - Williams College (2005)
- B.A. - Williams College (2000)
Research
Meghan Freeman studies the literature and culture of the Victorian era. Her teaching and research interests include the intersections between literature, the visual arts, and material culture; nineteenth-century aesthetic theory and art history; transatlanticism; children’s literature; and mystery stories and detective fiction. She is currently at work on a book project, tentatively titled To Have and Behold: The Aesthetic Encounter in Victorian Literature. Looking at novels, short stories, and narrative poetry, her manuscript investigates how representations of viewership by nineteenth-century British and American authors intercede in the public debate about the institutionalization of aesthetic experience via spaces such as the drawing room, gallery and museum. Her forthcoming publications include an article on museum space in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (Victorian Literature and Culture) as well as two book chapters for edited collections, one on the relation between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe (Poe In Context, Cambridge UP), and another on voicelessness as a condition of sexual victimization (Rape in Contemporary Swedish and Anglophone Crime Fiction, Palgrave). Meghan is an avid collector of nineteenth-century bric-a-brac, particularly wallpaper stamps and mourning jewelry.
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