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KellieD. Holzer

Kellie D. Holzer

Professor and Chair, Department of English


Degrees Held

B.A., Seattle Pacific University
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington

Office Location: 6 Graybeal Hall, Allen Village
Phone: 757-455-3390
Email: kholzer@vwu.edu
Department/s:
- English

PhD in English, Certificate in Women Studies, University of Washington - Seattle, 2007

MA in English, University of Washington - Seattle, 2002

BA in Cultural Anthropology, University of Washington - Seattle, 1997

BA in English, French minor, Seattle Pacific University, 1995

Essays and Chapters:

“‘Most men are human’: Race and Grant Allen’s The Type-Writer Girl.” Critical Insights: Feminism, Ed. Robert Evans, Salem Press, November 2020.

Author: “Introduction to ‘Victorian Literature in the Age of #MeToo’,” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, co-written with Dr. Lana Dalley, August 2020.

“Matrimonials in the Morning Post: Literary Wife-Traps in Conservative Contexts.” Victorian Review 43.2 (Fall 2017): 199-204.

“Marie Corelli’s ‘The Silence of the Maharajah’: Modern Marriage as Threat to Empire.” Victorians Institute Journal 44 (2016): 76-103.

“Lady Montagu’s Smokers’ Pastils and The Graphic: Advertising the Harem in the Home.” The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain. Eds. Janet Myers and Deirdre McMahon. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2016. 207-232.

“’More Ridiculous Than Sad’: Editing the Matrimonials in the London Journal.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 36.3 (July 2014): 233-249.

“The Body Writes Back: Self-Possession in Mr. Meeson’s Will.” Nineteenth Century Gender Studies 8.3 (Winter 2012).

“Novel Conceptualizations of the Modern Housewife in Colonial North India.” South Asian Review 29.2 (Fall 2009): 158-181.