Kathleen M. Oliver

Associate Professor

kmoliver@mail.ucf.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009 - Spring 2010: Sabbatical.
Campus Location: CNH307D

Education

Ph.D. in English: 18th-Century British Literature from University of South Florida (2000)

Research Interests

British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660 - 1830
Eighteenth-Century British Novelists (particularly Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, and Frances Sheridan)
Fashion, Clothing, and Dress in Literature
Literary and Cultural Theory; Feminist and Gender Theory
Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Selected Publications

Books

Samuel Richardson, Dress, and Discourse. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Articles/Essays

Forthcoming "Frances Sheridan and Ireland." In A Companion to Irish Literature. 2 vols. Ed. Julia M. Wright. Wiley- Blackwell.
Forthcoming "Sarah Fielding's Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia and the British Historical Novel." In Masters of the Marketplace: BritishWomen Novelists of the 1750s. Ed. Susan Carlile. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Lehigh University Press.
Forthcoming "Over the Garden Wall: Sarah Fielding's Ophelia as Critique of Pamela." InThe Eighteenth-Century Novel. vol. 8. Eds. Albert J. Rivero and George Justice. New York: AMS Press.
“Defoe’s Poetic Reformation: From Poem to Novel, From Pillory to Penitentiary.” CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 35.2 (Spring 2006): 157-78.
“O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People.”’ The Explicator 62:4 (Summer 2004): 233–36.
“Frances Sheridan’s Faulkland, the Silenced, Emasculated, Ideal Male.” Studies in English Literature, 1500 – 1900 43.3 (Summer 2003): 683-700.
“Clarissa Harlowe and the Language of Dress.” The Eighteenth-Century Novel. vol. 2. Eds. Albert J. Rivero and George Justice. New York: AMS Press, 2002. 45–90.
“Singing Bread, Manna, and the Clergeon’s Greyn.” Chaucer Review 31.4 (1997): 41-48.
“Swift’s ‘Mrs. Harris’s Petition.’” The Explicator 52.4 (Summer 1994): 216-19.

Creative Publications

“Four See-Songs; or The Courtship of Gertrude and Alice (á la mode de Gertrude).” time-sense: A Quarterly on the Art of Gertrude Stein. 1.2 http://www.tenderbuttons.com/review.html (December 1998).

Book Reviews

Rev. of Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690 – 1760, by Ingrid H. Tague. Eighteenth-Century Women, vol. 4. ed. Linda Troost. New York: AMS Press, 2006. 398-402.

Conference Papers/Presentations

“Sir Charles Grandison: Domestic Woman in Drag?” Presented at the American Societyfor Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 27 – 30, 2008.
“Over the Garden Wall: Sarah Fielding’s Ophelia as Critique of Pamela.” Presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, March 30 – April 2, 2006.
“Secrets and Subterfuge: Surviving Patriarchy in Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline.” Presented at the Aphra Behn Society Annual Meeting, Daytona Beach, Florida, October 27-30, 2005.
“‘With My Hair in Crystal’: Eighteenth-Century Hair Jewelry as Mourning Fetish.” Presented at the annual American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Boston, March 24 – 28, 2004.
“‘Cycles’ and ‘Periods’: Menstruation in Eighteenth-Century England.” Presented at the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) 10th Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, November 14 – 17, 2002.
“The Feminization of Faulkland in Frances Sheridan’s Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph.” Presented at American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 4 – 7, 2002.
“‘The English Malady’ as Female Malady in Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison.” Presented at the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Annual Meeting, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, October 18 – 21, 2001.
“‘The English Malady’ as Female Malady in Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison.” Presented at the Aphra Behn Society Annual Meeting, Daytona Beach, October 25 - 28, 2001.
“Feminine Foundations: Reconstructing Female Identity from Stays and Hoops.” Presented at the annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Woman Writers Conferences (BWWC), University of Kansas, Lawrence, March 15 – 17, 2001.
“Selling Our Daughters: The Novel and the Commodification of the Adolescent Female.” Presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 12 – 16, 2000.
“‘A Plump High-Fed Face’: Reconstructing Female Identity from Food and Fiction.” Presented at the Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Woman Writers Conference (BWWC), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, September 24 – 26, 1999.
“Virtuous Stays and Sexual Hoops: Clarissa’s Clothing, Before and After the Rape.” Presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, March 24 – 28, 1999.
“The Adolescent Female Body and Eighteenth-Century English Society.” Presented at the Aphra Behn Society Annual Meeting, Daytona Beach, October 29 – November 1, 1998.
“A Castrating Silence and Frances Sheridan’s Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph.” Presented at the Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Woman Writers Conference (BWWC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 26 – 28, 1998.

Awards

Competitive Sabbatical, 2009-2010. University of Central Florida.

In-House Research Grant. For Samuel Richardson and the Language of Dress. Office of Sponsored Research, University of Central Florida, 2005-2008.

Winner, Émilie Du Châtelet Award for Independent Scholarship, 2001-2002, awarded by the Women's Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.