Stephen F. Austin State University

Denise Millstein

Faculty

Denise Millstein, Ph.D

Office Location: LAN 210

Education:
Ph.D., English Literature, Louisiana State University
M.A., Comparative Literature, San Jose State University
B.A., English Literature, The University of Texas at Austin
B.S., Radio-TV-Film, The University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests:
19th Century British Literature, Romantic and Victorian
Gender Studies and Queer Theory
Fame Studies
The Gothic
Images of the Vampire
Cultural Materialism

Research Projects:
Byron and "Scribbling Women," which traces the influence of prominent Romantic female novelists like Ann Radcliff, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and Lady Caroline Lamb on Lord Byron's canon and then analyzes his impact on later female Victorian authors such as the Brontë Sisters and George Eliot.

Publications:
Forthcoming: "Today I Celebrate my Thirty-Sixth Year" and "The Prisoner of Chillon," Companion to Romantic Literature, edited by Andrew Mauder, Cambridge UP, 2010.

Forthcoming: "George Eliot's Felix Holt, the Radical and Byronic Secrets," Victorian Secrecy, edited By Albert Pionke and Denise Millstein, Ashgate, March 2010.

"The Failed Quest for 'Anti-Self-Consciousness': Angel, Spike, and Roderick Usher," Buffy Meets the Academy: Reading Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Literature and Philosophy, edited by Kevin Durnand, MacFarlane Publishing, 2009.

"The Effects of Fame on Lord Byron's Canon," Film and Television Stardom, edited by Kylo Hart, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

"Lord Byron and George Eliot: Embracing National Identity in Daniel Deronda," Forum: The University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts,
October 2005.