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Dr. Ashley J. Cross Associate Professor of English

 

Education:

• B.A., Swarthmore College, 1986
• M.A., Brown University, 1989
• Ph.D., Brown University, 1994

Research and Scholarly Interests:

British Romanticism, poetry and prose, especially the Shelley Circle and Mary Robinson; Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture; Women writers and theories of women's writing; Feminist theory and criticism; Literary theory

Publications:

“Anna Seward.” A critical biographical essay. British Writers, Supplement XVII. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI:  Thomson-Gale. Forthcoming 2010.

Model 2:  “Teaching Oroonoko in the Literature Survey II Class.” Approaches to Teaching Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko. New York: MLA. Forthcoming 2010.

"Coleridge and Robinson: Harping on Lyrical Exchange."  Fellow Romantics:  Male and Female  British Writers, 1790-1835. Ed. Beth Lau. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 39-72.

"Mary Darby Robinson."  A critical biographical essay.  British Writers, Supplement XIII. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI:  Thomson-Gale, 2008.  195-216.

"'What A World We Make the Oppressor and the Oppressed': George Cruikshank, Percy Shelley, and the Gendering of Revolution in 1819." ELH (Spring  2004): 167-207

"He-She Philosophers and Other Literary Bugbears:  Mary Robinson's A Letter to the Women of England." Women's Writing  9.1 (2002): 53-68.

"From Lyrical Ballads to Lyrical Tales:  Mary Robinson's Reputation and the Problem of Literary Debt." Studies in Romanticism 40.4 (Winter 2001): 571-605.

"'Indelible Impressions': Gender and Language in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (September 1998):  547-580.

"Men in Feminism" in Feminist Literary Theory: A Dictionary. Ed. Beth Kowaleski-Wallace (New York: Garland, 1997): 260-61.

"Penis" in Feminist Literary Theory: A Dictionary. Ed. Beth Kowaleski-Wallace (New York: Garland, 1997): 300.

"Social Contract"  in Feminist Literary Theory: A Dictionary. Ed. Beth Kowaleski-Wallace (New York: Garland, 1997): 376-77.

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• ENGL 110: College Writing
• ENGL 210: Exposition and Argumentation
• ENGL 248: Masterworks of British Literature
• ENGL 265: Post-Colonial Literature
• ENGL 274: Reading Poetry
• ENGL 306: Introduction to Literary Study
• ENGL 310: British Literature: Restoration to 1939
• ENGL 317: Studies in Lyric Poetry
• ENGL 327: Studies: 19th Century British Literature
• ENGL 334: Studies in British Romanticism
• ENGL 335: Studies in Victorian Literature
• ENGL 337: Literature by Women
• ENGL 367:  Literary Criticism
• ENGL 392:  Topics: Romanticism and Revolution
• ENGL 392:  Topics:  Feminist Literary Criticism
• LLRN 204:  Roots of the Modern Age: Literature
• Independent studies on gender and sexuality in literature

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-7118
• Office: Miguel 423
• Fax: (718) 862-8044
• e-mail: ashley.cross@manhattan.edu

 

Page last updated by  M. LaMonica on Sept. 8, 2009