Jill Ehnenn
Pronouns: She/her
Contact
Chair, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
- chairefs@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Victorian Studies Poetry and poetics visual culture feminist theory queer theory critical disability studies
About
My areas of specialization are Victorian Studies and queer theory. My scholarship is characterized by intersectional approaches to literary and visual culture and also employs historical and formalist methodologies. Among other interests, my ongoing research obsession is the life and work of the two late-Victorian women who collaborated under the pseudonym “Michael Field.”
My second book, Michael Field's Revisionary Poetics, was published with Edinburgh University Press in 2023. My first book, Women’s Literary Collaboration, Queerness, and Late-Victorian Culture was published with Ashgate in 2008 and reprinted with Routledge in 2017. I have edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts on “Natural and Unnatural Histories,” co-edited a recent special issue of Victorian Poetry on “Poetry and the Victorian Visual Imagination: New Conversations,” and am the lead editor for the 1911 portion of the international collaborative that is producing an open-access digital transcription of the thirty years of the Michael Field diaries, which are held at the British Library. In addition to multiple articles and book chapters on “Michael Field,” my other publications include work on Dorothy Wordsworth, Elizabeth Siddal, Vernon Lee, Graham R. Tomson, Lucas Malet, Thomas Hardy, 19th-century disability studies, 19th-century ekphrastic writing, 20th-century lesbian romance novels, and the Harry Potter series.
I am currently accepting graduate students in any of my research specializations. Please contact me for more information.
Research
I have two book projects currently underway. The first is Audacious Lives: A Biography of “Michael Field,” co-authored with Australian scholar Sharon Bickle. I am also working on a third monograph, tentatively titled, Art Objects and English Words: Ekphrasis, Transmedia Storytelling, and the Making of the Nineteenth-century “World.”
Featured Publications
Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism. eds. Catherine Burroughs and J. Ellen Gainor.. 2023 June;
Edinburgh University Press. 2023 April;
Victorian Studies. 2021 July; 64 (1):88-114 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.1.04
Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 2021 July; 43 (5):515-522 10.1080/08905495.2021.1975022
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry. Linda K. Hughes, Ed. Cambridge UP. 2019 September;
Michael Field, Decadent Moderns. Eds. Sarah Parker and Ana Vadillo. Ohio UP. 2019 July;
Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim: Critical Essays eds. Jane Ford and Alexandra Gray. . 2019 May;
Victorian Literature and Culture. 2018 December; 47 (1):35-62 10.1017/S1060150318001298
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 2017 October; 11 (2):151-168 10.3828/jlcds.2017.12
BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Felluga. . 2017 October;
Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives. Eds. Jane Ford, Kim Edwards Keates, and Patricia Pulham. Routledge. 2015 June;
Victorian Poetry. 2014 July; 52 (2):251-276 10.1353/vp.2014.0011
Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film and Television, 2nd edition. Ed. Thomas Peele. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011 September; 10.1007/978-1-349-29011-6_16
The Michaelian. 2009 June; 1
Ashgate 2008; Taylor and Francis 2017. 2008 April;
Victorian Poetry. 2004 October; 42 (3):213-259
South Atlantic Review. 1999 January; 64 (1):72-90 10.2307/3201745
Atlantis. “Sexualities and Feminisms” special issue. 1998 October; 23 (1):120-127
“‘An Attractive Dramatic Exhibition?’: Female Friendship, Shakespeare’s Women, and Female Performativity in 19th-Century Britain.”
Women’s Studies: An International Journal. 1997 May; 26 (3-4):315-341