Eleanor Jane McNees

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University of Denver
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
English
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 1985

Mailing Address

Pioneer Hall/E. Evans Avenue
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado 80208
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (303) 871-2861
Fax: (303) 871-2853
emcnees@du.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Colorado, English, 1984.
M.A., Northwestern University, English, 1974.
B.A., Colgate University, English, 1973.

Expertise and Research Interests

Currently I am under contract to edit a four volume Critical Assessments of the Brontes for Helm Information Publishers in England. The manuscript which will consist of some 200 collected essays on the Brontes will be published in 1995.After I complete that project, I intend to write a book on Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bronte, possibly focusing on the role of the Victorian and early modern spinster. I am also interested in collecting and editing a series of essays from the English Woman's Journal of the 1860s on the status of women and education/jobs in Victorian England.Another interest is embodied in the graduate course I teach every two years, Skepticism and Faith in Victorian England. The course deals with the religious controversies-- Oxford Movement, Dissenters, Evangelicals--during the Victorian period.Finally, I have a long standing interest in teaching and doing research in London. I have frequently been there on research trips and have taught twice there for the University of Denver. I am very interested in originating an English graduate study program there, possibly a joint history/English program.My Foreign interests are:EnglandMy Cross-Departmental interests are:women's studies and literature;religion and literature;British history;British literature

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Animal Husbandry, History, Research Libraries, United Kingdom.

Additional Terms:

Animal Care, Editing, History, Research, Research Libraries, Travel, United Kingdom, Victorian Literature, Women.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

French: (Fluent, Functional, Functional)
Swedish: (Functional, Functional, Fluent)
Latin: (Basic, Basic, None)

Memberships

Bronte Society
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
Modern Language Association of America
Virginia Woolf Society

Previous Positions

1991-1993, University of Denver, English, Associate Professor
1992, University of Denver, London Program, Director
1985-1991, University of Denver, English, Assistant Professor
1988, University of Denver, London Program, Director
1983-1985, University of Colorado, Editorial Assistant
1980-1985, University of Colorado, English, Instructor
1980-1986, Tattered Cover Bookstore, Bookseller
1974-1980, Colorado Academy, English, Instructor

Publications

  • E. McNees, Editor. Critical Assessments of the Brontes, forthcoming for Helm Information Ltd, Fall 1995
  • E. McNees, editor. Critical Assessments of Virginia Woolf (4 vols.) forthcoming winter 1994 from Helm Information Publishers, England
  • E. McNees, Eucharistic Poetry, Bucknell University Press, 1991
  • E. McNees, "Beyond the Half-Way House: Hopkins and Real Presence." TSLL 31.1 (Spring 1989)
  • E. McNees, "Reverse Typology in Jude the Obscure, " Christianity and Literature (Fall 1989).
  • E. McNees, "John Donne and the Anglican Doctrine of the Eucharist, " TSLL 29.1 (Spring 1987)

Profile Details

Last Updated: 3/16/1999

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