Faculty
Linda Gill, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Office: Stauffer Hall
Phone: (707) 965-6609
Faculty Since: 1993
Education:
B.A., Andrews University, 1984
M.A., La Sierra University, 1986
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1992
Linda Gill specializes in Victorian England, development of the novel, literary theory and dramatic performance. Gill has written articles for Dickens World, The Journal of Popular culture and Victorian Institute. She has also presented papers on Victorian authors such as Bronte, Dickens and Kipling, in addition to papers on the Harry Potter novels at Popular Culture conferences. She is particularly interested in investigating identity construction, meaning making and power in narratives. In addition to teaching courses in Romantic and Victorian literature, Gill teaches courses in Acting and performs regularly in DAS productions.
Chapter forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon: 1688-1901.
The Princess in the Tower: Gender and Art in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott." Victorian Institute Journal.35 (2007): 109-136. Print.
Harry's Great Expectations or the Great Expectations of Harry Potter?: Self-fashioning or Destiny in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Presentation at Popular Culture Conference, San Antonio, 2005.
"The Snake Problem: Adolescence, Masculinity and Power in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." Presentation at Popular Culture Conference, San Antonio, 2004.
"Women Beware ! The Appropriation of Women in Hollywood's Revisioning of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Journal of American and Comparative Cultures 24 (Fall and Winter 2001): 93-98.