Melissa Free
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Ross-Blakley Hall 150 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Melissa Free is Associate Professor of English, affiliate faculty in Gender and Women's Studies, and Barret Honors College faculty. She is the author of Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel (State U of New York P, 2021) and the editor of The Dead and Other Stories, by James Joyce (Broadview, 2014). Her work can also be found in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Conradiana, Genre, Joyce Studies Annual, Studies in the Novel, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Book History, The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture (ed. Juliet John, Oxford UP, 2016), and Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain (ed. Marlene Tromp, Ohio State UP, 2008).
- Ph.D. English Literature, minor in Gender and Women's Studies, certification in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- M.A. English Literature, North Carolina State University
- B.A. English Literature, Duke University
Victorian literature and culture; twentieth-century British literature and culture; postcolonial studies; women's, gender, and sexuality studies; genre studies.
Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South Africa Novel. State U of New York P, 2021. Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Editor. The Dead and Other Stories, by James Joyce. Broadview, 2014. Broadview Anthology of British Literature.
"Settler Colonialism." Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 46, no. 3, Sept. 2018, pp. 876-82.
"British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement." The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture, edited by Juliet John, Oxford UP, 2016, pp. 284-309.
"Fault Lines of Loyalty: Rudyard Kipling's Boer War Conflict." Victorian Studies, vol. 58, no. 2, Winter 2016, pp. 314-23.
"Frustrated Listening in Heart of Darkness." Conradiana, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring 2015, pp. 1-16.
"'It Is I Who Have the Power': Settling Women in Haggard's South African Imaginary." Genre, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall 2012, pp. 359-93.
"An Education in the Unwholesome: Dirt, Stench, and Desire in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Critical Insights: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by Albert Wachtel, Salem-EBSCO, 2011, pp. 35-49.
"'Who is G.C.?': Misprizing Gabriel Conroy in Joyce's 'The Dead.'" Joyce Studies Annual, 2009, pp. 277-303.
"Freaks That Matter: The Dolls' Dressmaker, the Doctor's Assistant, and the Limits of Difference." Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp, Ohio State UP, 2008, pp. 259-82. (Reissued in paperback, 2015.)
"Relegation and Rebellion: The Queer, the Grotesque, and the Silent in the Fiction of Carson McCullers." Studies in the Novel, vol. 40, no. 4, Winter 2008, pp. 426-46.
"'Dirty Linen': Legacies of Empire in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 48, no. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 340-71.
"Un-Erasing Crusoe: Farther Adventures in the Nineteenth Century." Book History, vol. 9, 2006, pp. 89-130.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 222 | Survey of English Literature |
ENG 544 | Studies Colonial/Postcol Lit |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
ENG 442 | 20th-C Brit/Irish Lit/Culture |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 332 | Race&Ethnicity in Lit/Culture |
ENG 384 | Gender&Sexuality Lit/Culture |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 308 | Form and History/Culture |
ENG 635 | Advanced Studies British Lit |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 222 | Survey of English Literature |
ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 635 | Advanced Studies British Lit |
ENG 426 | British Culture and Empire |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 332 | Race&Ethnicity in Lit/Culture |
ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 329 | 19th-Century British Fiction |
ENG 461 | Studies in Women and Lit |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 401 | Topics in Critical Theory |
ENG 635 | Advanced Studies British Lit |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 200 | Critical Reading & Writing/Lit |
ENG 426 | British Culture and Empire |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 345 | Selected Authors or Issues |
ENG 401 | Topics in Critical Theory |