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Department of English
Dr. Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
Department of English
Office: Hartwell 211C
(585)395-5712; (585)395-2391
Email: jhinds@brockport.edu
Education:
B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1982
M.A., University of Tulsa, English (1984)
Ph.D., University of Tulsa, English (1989)
Publications:
The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon: Eighteenth-Century Contexts, Postmodern Observations, Camden House, 2005 (Editor).
Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown and the Gendered Economics of Virtue, University of Delaware Press, 1997.
"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: The Play of Species in Pynchon's Mason &
Dixon," in Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British
Culture: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics (Ed. Frank Palmeri),
Ashgate, 2007. 199-221.
"The Nature and Culture of Species: Eighteenth-Century and Contemporary
Views," in What Are the Animals to Us? Approaches from Science,
Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art. Ed. Dave Aftandilian.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 95-109.
"Deb's Dogs: Animals, Indians, and Postcolonial Desire in Brown's Edgar Huntly". Early American Literature 39.3 (Winter 2004).
"Sari, Sorry and the Vortex of History: Calendar Reform, Anachronism and Language Change in Mason & Dixon."American Literary History, Vol. 12. 1-2 (Spring 2000).
"'That High Magic to Low Puns': Thomas Pynchon, Wit, and the Work of the Supernatural." Rocky Mountain Review Vol. 54.1 (Spring 2000).
"The Spirit of Trade: Olaudah Equiano's Conversion, Legalism, and the Merchant's Life." African-American Review 32.4 (Winter 1998).
"The Wrath of Ahab; or, Gene Roddenberry Meets Herman Melville," Journal of American Culture 20.1 (Spring 1997).
"Charles Brockden Brown's Revenge Tragedy: Edgar Huntly and the Uses of Property," Early American Literature 30.1 (Spring 1995).
"Charles Brockden Brown and the Frontiers of Discourse." In Frontier Gothic in America: Terror and Wonder at the Fronteir in American Literature. Ed. David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, and Joanne B. Karpinski. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1993).
"The Devil Sings the Blues: Heavy Metal, Gothic Fiction and 'Postmodern' Discourse." Journal of Popular Culture 26.3 (Winter 1992).
"Visible Tracks: Historical Method and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland," College Literature 19.1 (February 1992).
Courses Taught:
Early American Literature
American Literature Surveys
African-American Literature
American Modernism and Postmodernism
Cultural Studies
The Novel
Critical Approaches
