Emeritus Profiles

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  • Dianne F. Sadoff
  • Position: Professor Emerita of English
  • At Rutgers Since: 2006
  • Retired Since: 2016
  • Email Address: sadoffdf@rci.rutgers.edu
  • Bio: "I’m the type of life-long learner who likes to learn a new discourse for every project. I take pride in my ability to teach students the pleasures and skills of interdisciplinarity. My students learn to apply the discourses of political science and history to the study of fiction and the tools of gender studies, psychoanalysis, and the history of feminism’s emergence to the study of women writers. In my film and literature classes, I teach students to read film through the lens of aesthetic, visual-culture, and historical analysis and to understand the difference that media makes to the study of narrative structure and situation. By teaching my students in an interdisciplinary way, I hope to inspire them to become life-long learners too. "
  • Education: PhD, University of Rochester MA, Oregon State University BA, Oberlin College
  • Areas of Specialization: Film and Cinema Studies; Victorian Literature
  • Undergraduate Courses Taught: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Introduction to Literature Theories of Genre - Novel
  • Graduate Courses Taught: Editorial Board, Neo-Victorian Studies, 2007- Editorial Board, Atlantis, 2005-

Curriculum VitaeCurriculum Vitae

Books

Other Publications

  • “Charles Dickens”
    (co-edited with John Kucich) The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (ed. Nancy Armstrong, 2006)
  • “‘Appeals to Incalculability’: Sex, Costume Drama, and The Golden Bowl”
    Henry James Review     23, 2002
  • “‘Hallucinations of Intimacy’: The Henry James Movies”
    Henry James at the Movies     (2002)
  • “Histories of the Present”
    Victorian Afterlife: Contemporary Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (co-edited with John Kucich, 2000)
  • “‘Intimate Disarray’: The Henry James Movies”
    Henry James Review     19.3, Fall 1998
  • "The Father, Castration, and Female Fantasy in Jane Eyre"
    Jane Eyre: A Casebook (ed. Beth Newman, 1996)
  • "'Experiments Made By Nature': Mapping the Nineteenth-Century Hysterical Body" 
    Victorian Newsletter     81, Spring l992
  • "Looking at Tess: The Female Figure in Two Narrative Media"
    The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Thomas Hardy     (ed. Margaret Higgonet, 1992)
  • "Romola: Trauma, Memory, and Repression"
    George Eliot     (ed. K.M. Newton 1992)

Awards and DistinctionsProfessional Memberships and Affiliations

  • Visiting Scholar, Department of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2002-3
  • Visiting Scholar, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley, l991-2
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1990-1
  • Editorial Board, Neo-Victorian Studies, 2007-
  • Editorial Board, Atlantis, 2005-

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