Scholar in Residence
Office Location: 308 Allen Building
Office Phone: 919-684-5444
Email Address: cb162@duke.edu
Teaching (Fall, 2009):
- English 137.01, 19th cent british novel
Synopsis
- Perkins 2-087, WF 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
- English 137, The nineteenth century british novel
- Office Hours:
- Please e-mail for an appointment.
- Education and Interests:
- After earning her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2004, Criscillia Benford joined the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago where she taught World Literature in the Humanities Core and Victorian Literature in the English Department. In the Fall of 2008, she joined the English Department at Duke University as a Scholar in Residence and Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow. In general, her research explores the relationship between literary history and extra-literary forms. She is currently at work on two book projects. The first, "Novel Classifications: The Multiplot Structure and the Dynamics of the Victorian Social Order," situates a rigorous narratological account of the multiplot structure as a symbolic form within the context of Victorian publishing and sociocultural history, ultimately seeking to provide a generalized account of the ways in which narrative structure as such organizes how we understand social difference. The second, “Beyond Fidelity: Genre, Media, and the Cultural Work of Adaptation,” focuses on nineteenth-century theatrical adaptations of Victorian novels in order to explore how genre may be used to rescale and refocus a source-text in order to suit different media and ideological projects.