Alexandra Neel

Associate Professor of English and Director of Humanities Loyola Marymount University

  • Los Angeles CA

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

A specialist in nineteenth-century British literature and visual culture, Alexandra Neel joined the Humanities Program at Loyola Marymount University as an Assistant Professor in fall 2009 after serving two years as an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Oregon. She earned her PhD in English Literature from Princeton University in 2007. Her work focuses on the exchanges between illustrated travelogues of polar exploration and literary works, which range from Captain Cook's Second Voyage and Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner to Scott's Last Expedition and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Currently, Neel is working on a book-length project, "Winters Tales: Literary and Photographic Explorations of Antarctica and the Arctic." Her most recent articles focus on Charles Dickens' engagement with slavery in Our Mutual Friend and Mary Shelley's use of the still-life genre in Frankenstein. She teaches upper-division interdisciplinary seminars for the Humanities and Honors Programs and English Department, as well as courses on fiction, the graphic novel, and world literature.

Education

Princeton University

Ph.D.

English Literature

2007

Princeton University

M.A.

English Literature

2005

Clare College, Cambridge University

B.A.

English Literature

1995

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Areas of Expertise

Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Visual Cultures
Theories and Histories of Photography
Travel Literature
Polar Studies
Gender Studies
Postcolonial Studies

Industry Expertise

Women
Research
Education/Learning

Languages

  • French

Courses

Nineteenth-Century Global Travelers

HMNT 493/ENGL 389

“Graphic Stories”

HMNT 498/ENGL 389

"Photography, Literature, and the Uncanny"

HMNT 498/HNRS/ENGL 389

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Articles

Qui est là?’: Negative Personhood in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature

“‘Qui est là?’: Negative Personhood in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. (2017).

Still life in Frankenstein

A Forum on Fiction

“Still life in Frankenstein.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 48.3 (2015): 421-445

The Ghost Slavery in Our Mutual Friend

Victorian Literature and Culture

“The Ghost Slavery in Our Mutual Friend.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.3 (2015): 511-32.

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