Dr Lynne Evans
B.B.A, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
B.A (Hons), Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada
M.A., Dalhousie University, Canada
Ph.D, Dalhousie University, Canada
Email: lynne.evans2@msvu.ca
Teaching and Research Interests:
19th- and 20th- century American Literature. Additional interests include Early Modern English Drama; women’s writing and writing about women; representations of maternity, queerness, and the gothic.
Publications:
“’HELP ELEANOR COME HOME’: Monstrous Maternity in Shirley Jackson’s The
Haunting of Hill House” Canadian Review of American Studies 50.1 (2020): 102-120.
A “brutal, unprincipled, drunken, vice-ridden beast”: Maternity in Shirley Jackson’s The Bird’s Nest. ESC: English Studies in Canada 43/44 (March 2018): 25-47.
“Flannery O’Connor, Tennessee Williams, and Shirley Jackson: Crafting Postwar Maternity as
Cultural Nightmare.” Ph.D Dissertation, Dalhousie Unviersity (2016)
“’You see, it is the dawn of a new era’: The (Re) Imagining of America in
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland.” Canadian Review of American Studies
44.2 (Jan. 2014): 302-19.
“‘Come, Son, Let’s Away’: The Dialogue of Mothers and Young Sons on the Early Modern
Stage.” MA Thesis, Dalhousie University (2008)
Conference Papers:
“’Bowing to an applauding audience’: The Ecstasy of Annihilation in Tennessee Williams’ Kingdom of Earth.” St. Catharines: Association for Canadian College and University Teachers of English, May 2014.
“‘How do her glands behave?’: Reading Gertrude Stein.” Kitchener: Canadian Association of American Studies Conference, October, 2013.
“Monstrous Subjectivity in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red.” Boston: Northeast Modern Language Association, March, 2013.
“Kleinian Confinement: The Cannibalization of Sebastian Venable in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer.” Toronto: Canadian Association of American Studies Conference, November, 2012.
“‘You see, it is the dawn of a new era’: The (Re) Imagining of America in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland.” Ottawa: Canadian Association of American Studies Conference, November, 2011.
“‘Without me he died last Summer’: The Queer Power of Maternal Masochism in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer.” Fredericton: Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, May, 2011.
“The Haunting of Hill House as Embodied Nightmare.” Montreal: Association for Canadian College and University Teachers of English, May, 2010.
“‘Children Were the – Raison d’etre’: Reproductive Futurism in Herland.” Toronto: Graduate conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature, March, 2010.
“Maternal/Filial Dialogue in The Winter’s Tale and The Tragedy of Marian.” Washington: Shakespeare Association of North America, April, 2009.