Gordon Bigelow | Associate Professor, Chair

Office: 316 Palmer Hall | Phone: 843-3980 | Email: bigelow@rhodes.edu

Gordon Bigelow teaches courses on the English Romantic and Victorian periods 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 essays have appeared in publications on English literature and Irish history, and his current research project focuses on the connections between literature and economic thought in the ninetenth century.

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

Education

1998, Ph.D., Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

1991, M.A., English, University of New Hampshire

1985, A.B., Comparative Literature, Brown University

Courses

• 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

Selected Publications

Books

Approaches to Teaching Dickens’s Bleak House. Co-edited with John O. Jordan. Forthcoming from Modern Language Association, January 2009

Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Articles

“Trollope and Ireland.” Forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope. Cambridge University Press.

“Dracula and Economic History.” Forthcoming in Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History.

“Inside Out: Value and Display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt.” Victorian Literature and Capital. Oxford University Press, 2007.

“Let There Be Markets: The Evangelical Roots of Economics.” Harper′s Magazine (May 2005).

“Revolution and Modernity: Assia Djebar′s Les Enfants du nouveau monde.” Research in African Literatures 34.2 (Summer 2003).

"Market Indicators: Banking and Domesticity in Dickens′s Bleak House. " ELH 67 (Summer 2000).

"Technologies of Debt: Bank Finance and the Subject of Economic Thought." New Orleans Review 24.2 (Summer 1998)

Professor Bigelow′s Books Approaches to Teaching Dickens′s Bleak House, ed. John O. Jordan and Gordon BigelowFiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland

Approaches to Teaching Dickens′s Bleak House, ed. John O. Jordan and Gordon BigelowFiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland