{"id":1984,"date":"2019-09-14T19:46:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T23:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/?page_id=1984"},"modified":"2024-12-19T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:39:52","slug":"holly-wiegand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/holly-wiegand\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Wiegand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am a dedicated teacher and scholar of 19th-century transatlantic literature and culture. I\u2019m completing my dissertation, \u201cBold Devotion: Female Religious Authority and Transatlantic 19th-Century Fiction,\u201d under the direction of Anna Henchman and Laura Korobkin with plans to defend spring 2024. I earned the Graduate Certificate in Teaching Writing in 2022, and my graduate work received the 2023 BU Center of the Humanities Clarimond Mansfield Award and Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Award.<\/p>\n

My research and teaching attend to interdisciplinary 19th-century topics, namely:
\nwomen\u2019s studies, African-American studies, literature and religion, the novel, and literature and videogames. \u201cLater-Born Theresas\u201d fills in the gaps in women\u2019s religious participation and preaching in mid-century history. I examine how fictional and nonfictional Protestant women preachers navigated a hostile society by cultivating alternative female-centered communities and theologies that looked to their spiritual foremothers and sisters.<\/p>\n

Please see my personal website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Education:\u00a0<\/b>
\nM.A., English, Boston University
\nB.S., English, Corban University
\nPh.D., English, Boston University, expected 2024<\/p>\n

Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAntebellum Black Women Preachers\u2019 Feminist Typology,\u201d forthcoming in ESQ.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWomen in the Work(s): Race and Minorness in The Gates Ajar and Work,\u201d Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Forthcoming.<\/p>\n

\u201cDickinson on the Surface: Contemporary Children\u2019s Editions of Dickinson and the Board-Book Canon,\u201d Ampersand: An American Studies Journal, vol. 2, no 3. Link here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c80 Days, 80 Plays: Victorian Curiosity as Antidote to Empire in inkle Studio\u2019s 80 Days,\u201d in Victorians and Videogames, ed. by S. Brooke Cameron and Lin Young. Routledge, expected 2024.<\/p>\n

Conference Presentations:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“Frances Harper in the Black Female Preaching Tradition,” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. Accepted Seminar paper. March 2025.<\/p>\n

“‘To give the passage quite a contrary turn’: Women’s Struggle for Hermeneutic Authority in Charlotte Bront\u00eb’s Shirley,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention. Palm Springs, CA. 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmily\u2019s Surfaces: Contemporary Dickinson Children\u2019s Picture Books and the Board-Book Canon,\u201d Emily Dickinson International Society panel, American Literature Association (ALA). Chicago, IL. May 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cShifting Sympathies: Realism, Representation, and the Reception of Eliot\u2019s Devout Heroines,\u201d Midwest Victorian Studies Association (MVSA). Iowa City, IA. April 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cBridging New and Old Poetic Canons in the Classroom,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention. Boston, MA. March 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cVictorian Women\u2019s Theology in Conversation: Transatlantic Feminist Hermeneutics and Community in Shirley and The Minister\u2019s Wooing,\u201d Midwest Victorian Studies Association Summer Seminar, September 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cRewriting Her Stories: 19th-Century Scripture Biographies by and for Women,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, March 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan and\/as His Dog: Canines, Class, and Reform in <\/span>Middlemarch<\/i>,\u201d British Women Writers Conference, May 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Reading Failure and Failing to Read in Disco Elysium,<\/i>” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Baltimore, March 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

“‘They did more than to pour out tea’: Black Women Preachers and Their Communities in 19th-Century America,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, November 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Playing Jane(s): Narrative Multiplicity and Community in Video Game Adaptations of Austen,” Modern Language Association\u00a0Annual Convention, January 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cLiving Gothic Spaces: Reconsidering the Bleak House<\/i> Dark Plates,\u201d International #Dickens150 Virtual Conference, June 2020.<\/p>\n

“Shaftesbury, Fielding, and the Question of Right Ridicule,” The Conference for Christianity and Literature, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, March 2019.<\/p>\n

Courses Designed & Taught:<\/b><\/span>
\nWR120: Ready Player Reader: Literary Videogames and Narrative, fall 2023<\/span><\/p>\n

EN142: Introduction to Poetry, spring 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

EN120: Writing Women in 19th-Century America, fall 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

WR150: Literatures of Social Change 1850-Present, spring 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

WR120: 19th-Century Writing for Social Change, fall 2020<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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