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Lillian E. Craton
- Professor of English, Department of English & Foreign Languages
- Faculty, College of Arts & Humanities
- Director, Honors College
LC 343 Carnell Learning Center
Education
Ph.D., Emory University (2006)
M.A., Emory University (2005)
B.A., University of North Carolina (1998)
Publications
BOOKS
- The Victorian Freak Show: The Significance of Disability and Physical Difference in 19th Century Fiction. Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press. (2009)
CHAPTERS, CASES, READINGS, SUPPLEMENTS
- To E-Read or Not to E-Read: Rethinking Resistance to Digital Text in the Literature Classroom. Teachers as Avatars. Hampton Press. (2011)
- Hiding the Light: True Blood and Disability. True Blood & Philosophy expanded electronic edition. Wiley & Sons. (2011)
- I Am Sookie, Hear Me Roar: Sookie Stackhouse and Feminist Ambivalence. True Blood and Philosophy. Wiley & Sons. (2010)
- The Widest Lap: Fatness and Mothering in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Other Mothers. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP. (2008)
ARTICLES - REFEREED
- Book Review--N. Durbach's Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture in Victorian Studies. (2011)
Presentations
- Teaching the Madwoman: Visual Pedagogy for Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. College English Association Annual Conference. Denver, Colorado. (2016)
- Filming Bertha Mason. Victorians Institute Conference. Spartanburg, South Carolina. (October, 2015)
- Does a Liberal Arts Education Expand the Sphere of Concern?. Peace Studies Conference (People to People and Lander University). Greenwood, South Carolina. (2015)
- YA Lit in the College Classroom: Costs and Opportunities. College English Association Annual Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana. (2015)
- Constructions of Southern Womanhood. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. Chicago, Illinois. (April, 2014)
- The Road To Peace: Travel, Reflection, and Cultural Adventure. Peace Studies Conference (People to People and Lander University). Greenwood, South Carolina. (2013)
- The Nature and Nurture of Empathetic Reading. College English Association Annual Conference. Savannah, Georgia. (2013)
- Witnessing War, Promoting Peace. Peace Studies Conference (People to People and Lander University). Greenwood, South Carolina. (March, 2012)
- Liberation or Exploitation? Fat Maids and Mammies in the Fictional Nineteenth Century. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. Boston, Massachusetts. (2012)
- The Victorian Freak Show. Forum on The Elephant Man, The Warehouse Theater. Greenville, South Carolina. (October, 2011)
- Finding a Voice: Podcasting and Student Engagement. The Teaching Professor Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. (May, 2011)
- Peace and Poetry. Peace Studies Conference (People to People and Lander University). Greenwood, South Carolina. (March, 2011)
- Peace and Poetry. Peace Studies Conference (People to People and Lander University). Greenwood, South Carolina. (2010)
- Composing Ourselves: Intersections in Writing Instruction and Life Coaching (chair, special session roundtable). SAMLA. Atlanta, Georgia. (2009)
- Miniatures and Monsters: Extreme Littleness in the Novels of Charles Dickens. Victorians Institute 39th Annual Conference. Columbia, South Carolina. (October, 2008)