Professional Bio
Kelly Marsh is serving as Acting Department Head for the Department of English for the Spring 2012 term. She teaches courses on the twentieth-century British and Irish novel, twentieth-century Irish literature, contemporary literature, women’s literature, literature and film, and others. Her research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction includes articles on works by Jane Austen (Narrative), Charlotte Brontë (South Atlantic Review), Mary McCarthy (Studies in the Novel), Helen Fielding (College Literature), and Roddy Doyle (Critique). Her current book project is a narratological approach to novels of motherless daughters from Austen, Brontë, and Dickens through Elizabeth Bowen and Edith Wharton to Alice Walker, Arundhati Roy, and others.
Education
Ph.D. 1997 The Pennsylvania State University
M.A. 1993 The Pennsylvania State University
B.A. 1990 Dartmouth College
Teaching Interests:
Contemporary literature, twentieth-century British and Irish novel, women and literature
Recent Courses:
- Contemporary British Fiction and Narrative Theory
- After Empire: British and Irish Women’s Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Twentieth-Century British and Irish Novel
- Survey of Contemporary Literature
- Literature and Film
- Postcolonial Literature of Ireland (graduate)
Publications:
Articles
“ ‘This posthumous life of mine’: Tragic Overliving in the Plays of Marina Carr.” Under review.“The Mother’s Unnarratable Pleasure and the Submerged Plot of Persuasion.” Narrative 17:1 (2009): 76-94. (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/narrative/v017/17.1.marsh.html)
“Dead Husbands and Other ‘Girls’ Stuff’: The Trifles in Legally Blonde.” Literature/Film Quarterly 33:3 (2005): 201-205.
“Jane Eyre and the Pursuit of the Mother’s Pleasure.” South Atlantic Review 69.3/4 (2004): 81- 106.
“Contextualizing Bridget Jones.” College Literature 31.1 (2004): 52-72.
(http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/college_literature/v031/31.1marsh.html)“Roddy Doyle’s ‘Bad Language’ and the Limits of Community.” Critique 45.2 (2004): 147-59.
“‘All my habits of mind’: Performance and Identity in the Novels of Mary McCarthy.” Studies in the Novel 34.3 (2002): 303-319.
“The Neo-Sensation Novel: A Contemporary Genre in the Victorian Tradition.” Philological Quarterly 74.1 (1995): 99-123.
Professional Honors and Awards:
- Mississippi Humanities Council Humanities Teacher Award, 2006.
- Outstanding Faculty Award. Shackouls Honors College, MSU, 2005.
- Winner of the South Atlantic Review Essay Prize, 2005.
- Selected for the NEH Summer Seminar "Narrative Theory: Rhetoric and
Ethics in Fiction and Nonfiction," led by James Phelan at The Ohio State University, 2005. - Graduate Assistant Award for Outstanding Teaching. The Pennsylvania State University, 1997.
- College of the Liberal Arts Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research. The Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
Professional Service
Referee PMLA, Modern Language Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies
