Livia Arndal Woods
(she/her)
Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) working on nineteenth-century literature, medical humanities, critical practices, and digital pedagogies.
Dr. Livia Arndal Woods is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Her research focuses on Victorian fiction, women’s and gender studies, and the medical humanities.
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Academic Interests
Victorian literature and culture, medical humanities, gender and sexuality studies, reading practices, digital pedagogies
Education
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. PhD in English – June 2016
Graduate Center, New York, NY. Certificate in Women’s Studies – June 2016
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Master of Arts in English Literature – May 2009
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, Bachelor of Arts Degree – May 2006 (GPA: 3.85)
Positions
Publications
Journal Issue
Special issue of Nineteenth Century Gender Studies on “Relations: Literary Marketplaces, Affects, and Bodies of 18th- and 19th-Century Women Writers.” Issue 11.3 (Winter 2016). (Guest Editor with Julia Fuller and Meechal Hoffman, CUNY Graduate Center).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Practicing Canon-Formation in the Digital Classroom.” Article for special issue of Nineteenth Century Gender Studies on “Teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature and Gender in the Twenty-FirstCentury Classroom,” Eds. Lara Karpenko and Lauri Dietz, manuscript 25pp. (forthcomingSummer 2016)
“‘What are they to do with their lives?’: Anglican Sisterhoods and Useful Angels in Three Novels by Charlotte Mary Yonge.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 37.2 (Spring 2015), pp. 147-163.Republished in Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism, ed. Ann Heilmann.
“Now You See It: Concealing and Revealing Pregnant Bodies in Wuthering Heights and The Clever Woman of the Family.” Victorian Network 6.1 (Summer 2015), pp. 32-53.
Introductions and Chapters
“Introduction to Relations: Literary Marketplaces, Affects, and Bodies of 18th- and 19th-Century Women Writers.” Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, Issue 11.3 (Winter 2016). (With Julia Fuller and Meechal Hoffman, CUNY Graduate Center), manuscript 7pp.
“Not-So-Great Expectations: Pregnancy and Syphilis in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins.” Carrie Johnston and M. Kari Nixon, eds. Theorizing Syphilis and Subjectivity: From Victorians to the Present. (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2017), manuscript 29pp.
Book Reviews
Elisha Cohn, Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015). Victoriographies – A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914 (Forthcoming), manuscript 2pp.
Selected Works in Progress
Pregnancy in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Book Manuscript, 205 pp.
