Diana Edelman, Ph.D.
Area(s) of Expertise: British Romanticism, The Gothic Novel, Literature and Medicine
Courses Taught
Edelman teaches freshman composition, British and world literature surveys, and upper division courses such as British Romanticism, the Gothic novel, and the literature capstone.
Education
- Ph.D., Nineteenth-Century British Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005
- M.A., English Literature, University of Georgia, Athens, 1997
- B.A., English, California Baptist University, 1994
Research/Special Interests
Edelman’s research focuses on women novelists of the Romantic period, the Gothic novel, and the intersection of literature and medicine, particularly embryology and obstetrics.
Publications
Monographs
Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, Sharon Ruston et al. 10.1007/978-3-030-73648-4. 179 pp.
Journal Articles and Chapters
Forthcoming. “A Woman with an Attitude: Male and Female Gothic in Siouxsie and the Banshees.” Women in Rock/Women in Literature, James Rovira. Routledge. 26 pp. typescript.
“Gothic Medicine: Murderous Midwives and Homicidal Obstetricians.” Gothic Studies, vol. 20, nos. 1-2, November 2018, pp. 227-243. Article Abstract
Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First Year Composition. Ed. Tanya L. Bennett. Gainesville, GA: University of North Georgia Press, 2015. Four sections written (23 typescript pp.):
- Chapter 3.4—“Strategies for Paragraphing”
- Chapter 6.7—“Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting”
- Chapter 6.8—“Avoiding Plagiarism”
- Chapter 12.1—“Gender, Race, and Class in the Media”
“Anna Maria Winter.” Introductory Critical Essay. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Ed. Stephen Behrendt. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2008. 25 typescript pp.
“‘Kingdom of Shadows’: Intimations of Desire in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda.” Keats-Shelley Journal, vol. 51, 2002, pp. 116-144.
Other Academic and Professional Writing
Forthcoming, Entries for Edgar, or The Phantom of the Castle (1798) and My Master’s Secret (1805) in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, edited by April London, Cambridge UP.
Review of Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre (Ohio State UP, 2021) by Dara Rossman Regaignon, “Romantic Reviews and Receptions,” Romantic Circles. 1 September 2021
Forthcoming, Entry for Ann Radcliffe in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Gale Literature Resource Center.
Review of Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic (Routledge, 2016), by Catherine Spooner, “Romantic Reviews and Receptions,” Romantic Circles, 1 October 2020
Review of William Blake’s Gothic Imagination: Bodies of Horror (Manchester University Press, 2018), edited by Chris Bundock and Elizabeth Effinger, Romantic Circles
Review of War Gothic in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2016), edited by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet and Steffan Hantke, Gothic Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 2017, pp. 148-150.
Review of The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry: Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form (Routledge, 2016), by D. B. Ruderman, “Romantic Reviews and Receptions,” Romantic Circles, 8 May 2017
Invited blog, “The Benefits of Faculty Writing Groups,” The Center for Teaching, Learning and Leadership (CTLL), University of North Georgia (UNG), October 27, 2014
Guest blog, “Teaching Romanticism IX: Charlotte Smith.” Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, October 25, 2014