Molly Youngkin
Professor of English Loyola Marymount University
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Biography
Education
Ohio State University
Ph.D.
Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Wright State University
M.A.
English Literature
University of Dayton
B.G.S.
Humanities
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Curran Fellowship
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2016
BCLA Summer Research Grant
Loyola Marymount University, 2016
BCLA Summer Research Grant
Loyola Marymount University, 2013
BCLA Faculty Research Account
Loyola Marymount University, 2012
BCLA College Fellowship
Loyola Marymount University, Spring 2011
BCLA Summer Research Grant
Loyola Marymount University, 2009
Finalist, Colby Scholarly Book Prize
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2008
Affiliations
- Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
- Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western United States
Courses
ENGL 2200
Genres: Drama
ENGL 2202
Genres: Fiction
ENGL 2204
History of British Literature II
ENGL 2297
Special Studies in Histories: Victorians and Moderns
ENGL 3342
Images of Women in 19th-century England
ENGL 3328
Oscar Wilde
ENGL 3998/CLAR 4230/FTVS 3700
Ancient World and Film
ENGL 3998/IRST 3330
Irish Drama
ENGL 4460
Hard News to Blogs: Post-1800 Journalism
ENGL 4463
The Art of the Essay
ENGL 5532
The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
ENGL 5533
Victorian Literature
ENGL 5548/ENGL 3998/IRST 4448
Irish Women Writers
ENGL 6601
Graduate Seminar: Gender and Sexuality in the 1890s
ENGL 6603
Graduate Seminar: Oscar Wilde
FFYS 1000
First-Year Seminar: Books about Beasts: Animal Narratives, Human Readers
Articles
“'[T]he culminating flower of cat-worship in Egypt': 19th-Century Stage Cleopatras and Victorian Views of Ancient Egypt”
Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egyptedited by Eleanor Dobson, Manchester UP, 2020, pp. 114-38.
“New Woman Writing"
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literatureedited by Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer, Routledge, 2019, pp. 296-306.
“‘Strange Books’ from a ‘Weird Imagination’: H. Rider Haggard’s Romances, Sublime Egyptian Women, and H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘Weird Tales'”
Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticismno. 4, Summer 2019, pp. 45-65.
“The Response of the Late Victorian Feminist Press to Same-Sex Desire Controversies”
Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s: The Victorian Periodedited by Alexis Easley, Clare Gill, and Beth Rodgers, Edinburgh UP, 2019, pp. 542-54.
“Egyptian Mythology in Eliot’s Major Works”
George Eliot: Interdisciplinary Essaysedited by Jean Arnold and Lila Marz Harper, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 97-115.
“Oral Testimony and Legitimate Records of Spiritualist Phenomena in William Stainton Moses’s Light”
ELT: English Literature in Transitionvol. 61, no. 3, 2018, pp. 333-51.
"Feminism"
Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literatureedited by Juliet John, Oxford UP, revised 2018, originally published 2014, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199799558/obo-9780199799558-0139.xml
“A ‘duty’ to ‘tabulate and record’: Emma Hardinge Britten as Periodical Editor and Spiritualist Historian”
Victorian Periodicals Reviewvol. 49, no. 1, 2016, pp. 49-75.
"'Narrative readings of the images she sees’: Principles of 19th-Century Narrative Painting in George Eliot’s Fiction"
George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studiesvol. 67, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-29.
"The Aesthetic Character of Oscar Wilde’s The Woman’s World"
Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, Archivesedited by Joseph Bristow, U of Toronto P, 2013, pp. 121-42.
"Bound by an English Eye: Artistic Observation, Race Hierarchies, and Women’s Emancipation in Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought"
Prose Studiesvol. 33, no. 2, 2011, pp. 83-101.
"After Sensation: Legacies: The New Woman Novel"
A Companion to Sensation Fictionedited by Pamela Gilbert, Blackwell, 2011, pp. 579-90.
"‘Mrs. Schlesinger wields a facile pen’: Articulations of Spiritualist Feminism in Julia Schlesinger’s Carrier Dove"
Victorian Periodicals Reviewvol. 43, no. 3, 2010, pp. 262-95.
"Selected Letters: Henrietta Stannard, Marie Corelli, and Annesley Kenealy"
Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by Women Authors, 1860-1920edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, U of Iowa P, 2006, pp. 147-62.
"Independent in Thought and Expression, Kindly and Tolerant in Tone’: Henrietta Stannard, Golden Gates, and Gender Controversies at the Fin de Siècle"
Victorian Periodicals Reviewvol. 38, no. 3, 2005, pp. 307-26.
"'All she knew was, that she wished to live’: Late-Victorian Realism, Liberal-Feminist Ideals, and George Gissing’s In the Year of the Jubilee"
Studies in the Novelvol. 36, no. 1, 2004, pp. 56-78.
"George Moore’s Quest for Canonization and Esther Waters as Female Helpmate"
English Literature in Transitionvol. 46, no. 2, 2003, pp. 117-39.
"‘Into the Woof, A Little Thibet Wool’: Orientalism and Representing ‘Reality’ in Walter Scott’s The Surgeon’s Daughter"
Scottish Studies Reviewvol. 3, no. 1, 2002, pp. 33-57.
