Academic Background

BA (Witwatersrand), MA, PhD (Toronto). Associate Professor (1991).

Research Interests:

• Victorian literature and culture;
  
• 19th- and 20th-century American literature;
  
• psychoanalysis, religion, ethics.
  

Biography

Books: The Marked Body: Domestic Violence in Mid-Nineteenth Century Literature, with Kate Lawson (SUNY Press, 2002).

Selected Recent Articles include:

“Fantasies of National Identification in Villette.” Studies in English Literature, 15-1900. 49.4 (Autumn 2009): 925-44. (co-authored with Kate Lawson).

“Domestic History and the Idea of the Nation in Charlotte Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe.” Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Ed. Tamara Silvia Wagner. Cambria Press, 2009. 77-96.

Lynn Shakinovsky is the recipient of the Faculty of Arts Teaching Scholar Award (2009).