Dr. Maria DiCenzo

Professor

Contact Information

Email: mdicenzo@wlu.ca
Phone: 519-884-0710 ext.3985

Office Location: 3-128 Woods Bldg. ext 3985
Office Hours: Mon: 10-11am and Wed: 11am-12pm ... or by appointment

Languages Spoken

English

Academic Background

• Professor 
• PhD (McMaster)
• MA (Queen's)
• BA (McMaster)

Biography

Research Interests:

• feminist media history (late 19th and early 20th-century women's print media and social movements in Britain), feminism and the interwar period, 20th-century British political theatre, 

Books:

• Feminist Media History: Suffrage, Periodicals and the Public Sphere. With Lucy Delap and Leila Ryan. Palgrave, 2010.
  
• Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900-1918 (3 Volumes). Co-edited with Lucy Delap and Leila Ryan. Routledge, History of Feminism Series, 2006.
• The Politics of Alternative Theatre 1968-1990: The Case of 7:84 (Scotland) (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Journals Edited:

• "Feminisms and Print Culture 1830-1930 in the Digital Age." Co-edited with Cynthia Comacchio, Susan Hamilton, Alison Lee, Linda Mahood, and Leila Ryan. Special Issue of Women's Studies International Forum. 29: 3 (May-June), 2006.  
• Guest editor, "Italian Canadian Theatre," special issue of Canadian Theatre Review 104 (Fall 2000).

Selected Recent Articles and Chapters: 

• "An Interview with Maria DiCenzo, London 2011" by Kristin Skoog. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 8:3 (2012):  http://www.westminster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/124879/003An-interview-with-Maria-Dicenzo-Kristin-Skoog.pdf
  

• "Pressing the Public: Nineteenth Century Feminist Periodicals and 'the Press." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 6.2 (Summer 2010). http://ncgsjournal.com/issue62/issue62.htm
  

• "Transatlantic Print Culture: The Anglo-American Feminist Press and Emerging Modernities" (with Lucy Delap). Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms. Ed. Ann Ardis and Patrick Collier. Palgrave 2008. 48-65.

• "Feminism, Theatre Criticism, and the Modern Drama." South Central Review 25.1 (Spring 2008): 36-55. 
• "Neglected News: Women and Print Media, 1890-1928" (with Leila Ryan). Residual Media. Ed. Charles Acland. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 239-256.
  
• "Consuming ‘Italian’: Comics, Cooks and Gangsters in Ethnic Commodity Culture." Co-authored with Graham Knight. Italian Canadiana (2006)
• "Justifying Their Modern Sisters: History Writing and the Women’s Suffrage Movement." Victorian Review 31:1 (2005): 40-61.
• "Feminist Media and History: A Response to James Curran." Media History 10: 1, 2004: 43-50.
• "Theatre, Theory, and Politics: The Contribution of John McGrath" in Freedom's Pioneer: John McGrath's Work in Theatre, Film and Television. Eds. David Bradby and Susanna Capon (University of Exeter Press, 2004))
• "Gutter Politics: Women Newsies and the Suffrage Press" in Women's History Review 12.1 (Winter 2003)
• "Militant Distribution: Votes for Women and the Public Sphere" in Media History 6.2 (December 2000)
• "Creative Economies: New Right Hegemony and Cultural Funding" in British Journal of Canadian Studies 13.2 (Feb./March 1998)