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Tabitha Sparks

Tabitha Sparks
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext. 09348
Email address: 
tabitha.sparks [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

James 405
James Administration Building
845 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, QC H3A 2T5
Canada

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Associate Professor; Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Stream: 
Literature
Specialization by geographical area: 
Great Britain
Specialization by time period: 
19th-Century
Victorian
Area(s): 
Fiction
Archives & Bibliography
History & Theory of the Novel
Identity & Representation
Areas of interest: 

19th Century novel; literature and medicine; narrative theory.

Degree(s): 

M.A., Ph.D. (University of Washington)
B.A. (Bates College)

Selected publications: 

Books

(University of Virginia Press, 2022)
搁别惫颈别飞蝉:听, ,听Victorians Institute Journal

Book cover of "Victorian Metafiction" by Tabitha Sparks

(1887) by Margaret Harkness. Ed (Broadview Press, 2017)

Book cover of "A City Girl: A Realistic Story (1887)" edited by Tabitha Sparks

, co-edited with Louise Penner (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)

听(Routledge, 2009)

The Bront毛s in Context: Harold Bloom's Classic Authors Series (2008)

Articles and Book Chapters

"Sensational Metafictions: Collins to Haggard.鈥� Invited submission.听The Routledge Companion to Sensation Fiction. Anne-Marie Beller and Tara MacDonald, eds. Routledge. Forthcoming听2024.听

鈥淕eorge MacDonald鈥檚 Experimental听Realism: The English Novels.鈥� Invited submission.听Cambridge Companion to George MacDonald.听John Pazdziora and Daniel Gabelmen, eds.听Cambridge UP. Forthcoming 2024.听

鈥溾�� Invited submission.听听Journal of Victorian Popular Fiction. Spring, 2023.听

鈥溾�� Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women鈥檚 Writing. Ed. Lesa Scholl. 2020.

鈥溾�� Journal of Victorian Popular Fiction, December 2019.

鈥淎bsent Character: from Margaret Harkness to John Law.鈥� Authorship and Activism: Margaret Harkness and Writing Social Engagement, 1880-1921. Lisa Robertson and Flore Jansen, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press (forthcoming 2018).

鈥淲orking-Class Subjectivity in Margaret Harkness鈥檚 A City Girl (1887)鈥�, Victorian Literature and Culture (forthcoming 2017).

鈥淐harlotte Bront毛鈥檚 The Professor,鈥� Blackwell's A Companion to The Bront毛s (2016).

鈥泪苍迟谤辞诲耻肠迟颈辞苍.鈥� Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture. Co-written with Louise Penner. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2015).

鈥淚llness is Metaphor in the Victorian Novel: Reading Popular Fiction against Medical History.鈥� Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture. Co-Editor with Louise Penner. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2015) 22 pages.

"" Hektoan Internation: A Journal of Medical Humanities (May 2014)

鈥淲ilkie Collins鈥檚 The Law and the Lady and Feminine Reason: 鈥楺uite Impossible, and nevertheless quite true!鈥欌�� Clues 31.2 (Winter 2014).

鈥淜ate Marsden鈥檚 Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with a Missionary Nurse.鈥� Picturing Women鈥檚 Health, 1790-1914, ed. Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth, and Ji Won Chung. London: Pickering & Chatto (Winter 2014).

鈥淒inah Mulock Craik鈥檚 Olive: Deformity, Gender, and Female Destiny.鈥� Women鈥檚 Writing 20.3 (2013).

鈥淪ensation Intervention: M.C. Houstoun鈥檚 Recommended to Mercy (1862) and the Novel of Experience.鈥� Women鈥檚 Writing 20.2 (2013).

鈥淭o the Madhouse Born: the Ethics of Exteriority in Lady Audley鈥檚 Secret.鈥� New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Ed. Jessica Cox. Amsterdam/New York: Rodolpi, 2012.

鈥淟ineage as Destiny in Catherine Cookson鈥檚 Our Kate: Reprising the Victorian Orphan Tale鈥� and 鈥泪苍迟谤辞诲耻肠迟颈辞苍鈥� (with Julie Anne Taddeo), Catherine Cookson Country: On the Borders of Legitimacy, Fiction, and History. Ed. Julie Anne Taddeo. (Ashgate, 2012).

鈥淩ealism after Sensation: Hardy, Gissing, Meredith,鈥� Blackwell's Companion to Sensation Fiction (2011).

"AIDS in Africa, Cultural Studies in Georgia," Cultural Studies vol. 19. No.4 (July 2005).

鈥淢edical Gothic and the Return of the Contagious Diseases Acts in Stoker and Machen,鈥� Nineteenth-Century Feminisms (Fall 2003).

鈥淣arrative Injury and Surgical Cure: Wilkie Collins鈥檚 Poor Miss Finch and Heart and Science,鈥� Journal of Narrative Theory (Winter 2002).

鈥淔iction Becomes Her: Representations of Female Character in Mary Braddon鈥檚 The Doctor鈥檚 Wife,鈥� Mary Braddon in Context, eds. Marlene Tromp, Aerin Haynie, and Pamela K. Gilbert. State University of New York Press (2000).

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Pembroke College, University of Cambridge: Associate Scholar, 2017-2018听
  • NINES: Networked Infrastructure of Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship Research Fellowship: Digital Humanities Institute. University of Victoria,听June 2012
  • Research Fellowship, Emory University鈥檚 Manuscript, Archive and Rare Book Library (MARBL): 鈥淵ellowbacks and Representational Self-Consciousness: Extending Realist Techniques to the Popular Novel.鈥� Atlanta, GA, July 2- August 2 2009
  • FQRSC 茅quipe en 茅mergence grant project: 鈥淭echnologies, Media, and Representation in Nineteenth-Century France and England,鈥� April 2009-April 2011
  • Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching/91社区, Department of English, 2004-5
  • Marion Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship (Georgia Tech)
  • Center for Humanistic Inquiry Postdoctoral Fellowship (Emory)
  • NEH Institute Fellowship

Memberships

  • Advisory Committee on English Education, Province of Quebec
Taught previously at: 

University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
Emory University听(Atlanta, GA)

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