Jie Zhuang

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Lecturer
School of Humanities
Ph.D., UC Irvine, English
B.A., UC Berkeley, English
University of California, Irvine
199 Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Eighteenth-Century literature and culture; The Novel; Gothic literature; Women’s Literature; Gender and Feminist studies; Postcolonial Studies; Composition Pedagogy
Publications
“‘Reverse, else, the medal’: Femininity as Masquerade in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer.” Studies in the Novel 55.1 (Spring 2023): 1-16.

“‘A third- a something between the do-nothing and the do-all’: A Middle-Course Word Game in Emma.” Persuasions 43 (2021): 222-233.

“The Transformative ‘Fall’: A Structural Metaphor in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.” Persuasions On-line 40.1 (2019).

“Performing Northanger Abbey: Inventing Dissent and Agency through Irony.” Significations (2018): 271-283.

Dissertation: “Ambiguous Agency: The Construction of Femininity in the Gothic Writing of Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Brontë, and Jane Austen.”
Last updated
11/09/2023