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Joyce Huff
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., The George Washington University
Office: Robert Bell 386
Phone: (765) 285-8378
E-mail: jlhuff@bsu.edu
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Areas of Specialization
Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, the Victorian period,
literature and medicine, disability studies, the novel
Publications
Book Chapters
- “Freaklore: The Dissemination, Fragmentation and Reinvention of
the Legend of Daniel Lambert, King of Fat Men. Forthcoming in
Victorian Freaks, Ed. Marlene Tromp, Ohio State University
Press, 2008.
- “Access to the Sky: Fat Bodies and Airline Seats as Contested
Spaces.” Forthcoming in The Fat Studies Reader. Eds. Sondra
Solovay and Esther Rosenblum, University of California Press, 2008.
- “Corporeal Economies: Work and Waste in Nineteenth-Century
Constructions of Alimentation.” Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet,
Digestion and Fat in the Modern World. Eds. Christopher E. Forth
and Ana Carden-Coyne. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 31-49.
- “A ‘Horror of Corpulence’: Interrogating Bantingism and
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fat-phobia.” Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness
and Transgression. Eds. Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 39-59.
Conference Proceedings
- “Cameos, Coins and Character: Sir Walter Scott and the Invention
of the Ballad Tradition.” Prometheus Unplugged? 12-14 Apr.
1996. Emory University.
Poems
Book Reviews
- Review of Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the
Dependencies of Discourse, by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L.
Snyder, and Disability Discourse, by Mairian Corker and Sally
French. The National Women’s Studies Association Journal.
14.3 (Fall 2002): 201-204.
- Review of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Disability in
American Literature and Culture, by Rosemarie Garland Thomson.
College Literature 25.3 (Fall 1998): 200-202.
Courses
Graduate: Victorian Literature, Studies in
the Novel, Literary Theory II, Seminar in Theory
Undergraduate: Nineteenth-Century British
Literature, British Literature II, World Literary Masterpieces, Senior
Seminar, Reading and Writing About Literature
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