2006 Keynote: Mary Ann O'Farrell (Texas A&M)

 

Mary Ann O'Farrell is an Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M

University.  She has written articles on Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Henry

James, George Eliot and others, and is particularly interested in gender

studies, representations of blindness, and the convention of "manners."   

Professor O'Farrell's 1997 book Telling Complexions:  The

Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush (Duke University Press)

received an "Outstanding Academic Book" citation from Choice magazine. 

Her current book project is titled: Jane Austen's mafia, or the Force of

Manners.


PUBLICATIONS: 

Virtual Gender:  Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment.  Edited (with Lynne Vallone).  Ann Arbor:  The University of Michigan Press, 1999.

Telling Complexions:  The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush.  Durham and London:  Duke University Press, 1997.
        • Choice Outstanding Academic Book citation

"Missing Jane Austen:  Henry James Considers the Old Maid," Henry James Review, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter 2006): 1-9.

"Jane Austen," in "Encyclopedia of British Literature," Oxford University Press, David Kastan, Nancy Armstrong, et al., eds.,  5000 words (forthcoming).

"Words to Do with Things:  Reading about Willa Cather and Material Culture," in Willa Cather and Material Culture:  Real World Writing, Writing the Real World, ed. Janis Stout.  Tuscaloosa:  The University of Alabama Press, 2005.

"Provoking George Eliot," in Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (Essays from the English Institute), ed. Lauren Berlant.  New York:  Routledge:  2004.

"Whose Body?:  Recognizing Feminist Mystery and Detective Fiction," special double issue of The South Central Review, intro. and ed. (with Pamela Matthews), Vol. 18, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2001).

"Self-consciousness and the Psoriatic Personality:  Considering Updike and Potter," Literature and Medicine 20.2 (Fall 2001):133-50.

"Jane Austen's Friendship," in Janeites:  Austen's Disciples and Devotees, ed. Deidre Lynch.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2000.               

"Blindness and Domestic Terror in Wait Until Dark,"  WHR (Western Humanities Review) Winter 1999:218-22.

"Austen's Blush," Novel 27 (1994):125-39.