Gordon Bigelow teaches courses on nineteenth-century English literature and on the literature and culture of modern Ireland. He joined the department of English at Rhodes in 1998, after earning a Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His first book focused on connections between literature and economic thought in the nineteenth century He is currently at work on a book dealing with the Irish fiction of Anthony Trollope and the history of the modern novel.
Professor Bigelow′s Books
Approaches to Teaching Dickens′s Bleak House, ed. John O. Jordan and Gordon Bigelow
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
1998, Ph.D., Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
1991, M.A., English, University of New Hampshire
1985, A.B., Comparative Literature, Brown University
English 151 - FIRST YEAR WRITING SEMINAR
English 261 - SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATRE II
English 351 - VICTORIAN POETRY AND PROSE
English 355 - 19TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION
English 385 - TOPIC: HIST OF THE CYBORG
English 385 - TOPIC: IRISH LITERATURE
English 385 - TOPIC: STUDIES IN HORROR FILM
English 399 - TUTORIAL FOR HONORS CANDIDATES
English 460 - INTERNSHIP
English 485 - SENIOR SEMINAR
English 495 - HONORS TUTORIAL
Books
Approaches to Teaching Dickens’s Bleak House. Co-edited with John O. Jordan. Modern Language Association, January 2009.
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Articles