Lisa M Logan

Associate Professor

lmlogan@mail.ucf.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009: On sabbatical
Campus Location: CNH307G

Education

Ph.D. in English from University of Rochester (1993)

Research Interests

Early American Literature; Women's Personal Narratives, including autobiography, diary, and memoir, and especially captivity, crime, travel, and cross-dressing; Feminist Theory; American Novel; theories of space and place

Selected Publications

Books

Resources for Teaching the Bedford Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 1. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2006.

Articles/Essays

"The Importance of Women to Early American Study." Early American Literature. 44.3 (2009): 641-48.
“Columbia’s Daughters in Drag; or, Cross-Dressing, Collaboration, and Authorship in Early American Novels.” Feminist Interventions in Early American Literature. Ed. Mary Carruth. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama P., 2006. 240-252.
“’And the Ladies in particular’: Constructions of Femininity in The Gentleman and Ladies Town and Country Magazine and Ladies Magazine, and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge.” Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Ed. Sharon M. Harris and Mark L. Kamrath. Knoxville, Tennessee: U of Tennessee P, 2005. 277-306.
“’Cross-Cultural Conversations’: The Indian Captivity Narrative.” Blackwell Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America. Ed. Ivy T. Schweitzer and Susan Castillo. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005: 464-79.
“’Dear Matron—‘: Constructions of Women in Eighteenth-Century American Periodical Advice Columns.” Studies in American Humor. 3.11 (2004): 57-62.
“Race, Romanticism, and the Politics of Feminist Literary Study: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “’The Amber Gods.’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 18.1 (2001). 35-51.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Conventional Nineteenth-Century Domesticity.” Approaches to Teaching Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ed. Elizabeth Ammons and Susan Belasco Smith. New York: MLA, 2000. 46-56.
“Encouraging Feminism: Teaching The Handmaid’s Tale in the Introductory Women’s Studies Classroom.” Teaching Introduction to Women’s Studies: Expectations and Strategies. Ed. Barbara Scott Winkler and Carolyn DiPalma. Westport: Bergin, 1999. 191-200.
“The Anxieties of Authorship: Gender, Agency, and Textual Production in Eighteenth-Century America.” Review 21 (1999): 257-64.
"'There is no home there': Captivity and Restoration in Spofford's 'Circumstance.'" Safe Space: Violence and Women’s Writing. Ed. Julie Tharp and Tomoko Kuribayashi. Albany: State U of New York P, 1997. 117-30.
Introduction. Critical Essays on Carson McCullers. Ed. Beverly Lyon Clark and Melvin Friedman. New York: Hall, 1996. 1-16.
"Nobody Knows Best: Carson McCullers' Plays as Social Criticism." Southern Quarterly 33. 2-3 (1995): 23-34. [Co-author: Brooke Horvath]
"Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and the 'Place' of the Woman Subject." Early American Literature 28.3 (1993): 255-77. [Honorable Mention, Richard Beale Davis Prize for Best Essay in EAL 1993]

Miscellaneous Publications

“Domestic Fiction.” American History Through Literature, 1820-1870. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover, Robert D. Sattelmeyer. New York: Charles Scribners Sons (Thomson Gale), 2006.
“American Women’s Autobiography: Early Diarists and Memoirists.” Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography. Ed. Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin. Greenwood Press, 2005. 32-42.
“Bodies in Space: Reading Gender and Race in Context.” Early American Literature 38.3 (2003): 521-26.
"Julia Ward Howe." American Travel Writers, Volume II, 1851-1901. Ed. Donald Ross and James Schramer. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 189. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998: 166-71.
"Mary Lewis Kinnan." American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Ed. Carla Mulford, et al. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 200. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998: 217-20.