Lorena Russell
Associate Professor

Chair, Dept. of Literature & Language

Recent teaching:
HUM 324, The Modern World
HUM 214, Medieval-Renaissance World
LITER 349, Intro. to Postcolonial Liter.
LANG 120, Foundations of Academic Writing
LITER 491, Intro. to Literary Theory
LITER 489, Virginia Woolf Seminar
LITER 241, Intro. to Poetry
WMST 400, Senior Seminar
LITER 356, Art of the Novel
LITER 373, Queer Fictions

Contact information:
Office:  220 Karpen Hall
Office Phone:  (828) 251-6410
lrussell@unca.edu
http://facstaff.unca.edu/lrussell/

“Colonialism/Postcolonialism.”  Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship and Sexuality Through History, Vol 6: The 20th and 21st Centuries. Ed. James Sears. New York: Greenwood Press, 2007.

"Defense of Family Acts: Queering Famiglia in The Sopranos." Considering David Chase. Ed. Thomas Fahy. McFarland Press, 2007.

“Latent Lesbians and Heterosexual Narrative: Tracing a Queer Poetics in Fay Weldon’s Fiction” Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature. Ed. Richard Fantina.  McFarland Press, 2006.

“Strangers in Blood: The Queer Intimacies of Six Feet Under.” Considering Alan Ball.  Ed.Thomas Fahy. McFarland Press, 2006.

"Angela Carter.” Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. New York: Routledge.

“Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient.” The Booker Prize. Ed. Merritt Moseley. New York: Thomson Gale, 2006.

"Ogees and the Lady: Queer Aesthetics in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty." Postscripts: The Publication of the Philological Society of the Carolinas 21 (2006).

“Heterosexual Panic in the Ass-End of Space: Queer Gothic in Alien³.” Gothic Studies (Nov. 2005) 7.2. (abstract)

"Hope and Despair in The English Patient." Postscripts: The Publication of the Philological Society of the Carolinas 20 (2005).

“Queering Consumption and Production in Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.” Horror Films: The Packaging of Terror. Ed. Steffen Hantke. Jackson, MS: U Mississippi Press, 2004. 213-226.

“Paul Bailey.” British and Irish Novelists Since 1960. Ed. Merritt Moseley. DLB 271, New York: Thomson Gale, 2003.

“Dog-Women and She-Devils: The Queering Field of Monstrous Women.” International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies 5.2 (2000): 177-193.

In progress:
 “Exploration and  Colonization” in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. Bloom’s Literary Themes. Ed. Blake Hobby. Gale Publishing.

"Enslavement and Emancipation" in Franz Kafka’s "The Penal Colony." Bloom’s Literary Themes. Ed. Blake Hobby. Gale Publishing.

Queering the Pulpit: Feminist Metafiction in Weldon, Winterson and Carter.

"Giovanni's Room" Bloom's Literary Themes (sexuality). Ed. Blake Hobby. Gale Publishing.