Professor
Christy Rieger holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. from the University of Dallas. She teaches classes in British literature, medicine and literature, world literature, and composition. Her composition classes focus on the analysis and practice of life-writing. Additionally, she directs the Center for Teaching Excellence.
She has published widely on Victorian literature, with special emphasis on medicine and literature. Her latest articles examine depictions of drug fiction, the gothic hospital in late-Victorian fiction, and the popular fiction of L. T. Meade, creator of the first medical mystery series. Dr. Rieger's forthcoming essay (for a special issue of the journal Humanities on the Medical Humanities) draws on archival research to analyze conflicting representations of Robert Louis Stevenson as a "frail warrior" during his 1887 stay at the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York. She also has a particular interest in writing pedagogy and co-authored a special issue of Journal of Excellence in College Teaching titled 鈥淢otivating Millennials: How to Promote Active Reading in an Online Era.
- Ph.D. in English, University of Notre Dame
- B.A. in English, University of Dallas
- Victorian Literature
- Medicine and Literature
- 尝颈蹿别-奥谤颈迟颈苍驳听
- Writing Pedagogy聽
- Victorian Literature
- Romantic Literature
- Trauma and 尝颈蹿别-奥谤颈迟颈苍驳听
- Popular Victorian Fiction
- Victorian Poetry聽
- Gothic Literature聽
- COMP 120: Research and Writing
- "Popular Fiction and the Holmesian Doctor Detective in L. T. Meade鈥檚 Stories from the Diary of a Doctor" Victorians Institute Journal 47.2 (2019-20): 115-133.
- 聽鈥淐hemical Romance: Genre and Materia Medica in Late-Victorian Drug Fiction.鈥 Victorian Literature and Culture. Fall 2018.
- 聽Co-author, with Natalie Mera Ford. 鈥淢otivating Millennials: How to Promote Active Reading in an Online Era.鈥 An introduction by the guest editors. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Fall 2016. 1-6.听
- 聽鈥淭he Value of Net Obscurity: Google Books and Unmediated Texts.鈥 Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Fall 2016. 42-54.听
- 聽鈥淪t. Bernard's: Terrors of the Light in the Gothic Hospital.鈥 Gothic Landscapes: Changing Eras, Changing Cultures, Changing Anxieties. Eds. Rose Yang and Katherine Healey. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 25-38.听
- 聽鈥淢edical Sensationalism in The Crimson Petal and the White and The Dress Lodger. Fashioning the Neo-Victorian: Theories, Authors, Texts. Eds. Susanne Gruss and Nadine Bohm. Routledge. 2014. 153-65.
- 鈥淓veryone Is Ill鈥: Disease and Class Privilege in Gaskell鈥檚 North and South.鈥 Victorian Institute conference. Spartanburg, SC. 聽October 2022
- 聽鈥淭he Eros of Illness: W. E. Henley鈥檚 In Hospital,鈥 Victorian Institute conference. Charlotte, NC. October 2021.听
- 聽鈥淕enre and the Holmesian Doctor Detective in the Medical Mysteries of L. T. Meade.鈥 North American Victorian Studies Association conference. Columbus, OH. Oct. 2019.
- 聽 鈥淭he Frail Warrior鈥: Robert Louis Stevenson as the Manly Invalid at Saranac Lake鈥 Victorian Institute conference. Greenville, SC. October 2017.
- 聽鈥溾橲ee the Value of Imagination': Sherlock Holmes and the Arts and Humanities.鈥 Victorian Institute conference. Raleigh-Durham, NC. October 2016.
- 聽鈥淧romoting International Authors Online: How Can We Sustain the Benefits of Digital Projects?鈥 College English Association of Ohio conference. Kent State. Kent, OH. April 2016.
- 鈥淢ystery and Material Culture in the Late-Victorian Transforming Drug Narrative鈥. Victorians Institute conference. Charlotte, NC, October 2014.听
- "St. Bernard鈥檚: The Economy of Medical Evidence in the Late-Victorian Gothic Hospital.鈥 North American Victorian Studies conference. Pasadena, CA. October 2013.
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