Professor
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Durham Campus, (905) 435-5100, rbode@trentu.ca
Research Interests
19th- and early 20th-century British and American; 19th-century American women writers, and transatlantic studies; early 20th-century Canadian.
Current Research Project
Anglo-American female literary tradition of the 19th and early 20th centuries; editing Edith Wharton, volume 7, the Novellas, in OUP’s “The Complete Works of Edith Wharton”; the maternal in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily series.
I am also the current editor of the Edith Wharton Review.
Selected Publications
Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery: Continuing Conversations, co-editor with Lesley D. Clement, Holly Pike, Margaret Steffler. McGill-Queen’s UP [(forthcoming Fall 2022) (includes chapter on boys and boyhood in the Emily books)]
American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic, co-editor with Monika Elbert. Palgrave, 2021 (includes chapter on Rose Terry Cooke).
L. M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s), co-editor with Jean Mitchell. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018 [(winner of ACQL’s Gabrielle Roy Prize) (includes chapter on L.M. Montgomery and organic architecture)]
L. M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-42, co-editor with Lesley D. Clement. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2015.
“Narrating Violation: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’” European Journal of American Studies (EJAS), vol. 14, no. 3, 2019. https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15057
“Lost and Found: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Telling of Her Story.” Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius. Routledge, 2019, pp. 141-57.
“Among the Prophets: Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot in Italy.” Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Encounters with Italy and the Atlantic World, co-edited by Beth L. Lueck, Sirpa Salenius, and Nancy Lusignan Schultz, U of New Hampshire P, 2017, pp. 118-135.
“Wharton’s Italian Women: ‘My Beloved Romola.’” Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism, co-edited by Meredith L. Goldsmith and Emily J. Orlando, UP of Florida, 2016, pp. 89-109.
“Belonging, Longing, and the Exile State in Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot.” Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain, co-edited by Beth L. Lueck, Brigitte Bailey, and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, U of New Hampshire P, 2012, pp. 188-207.
“Mother to Daughter: Muted Maternal Feminism in the Fiction of Sandra Cisneros.” Textual Mothers, Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures, co-edited by Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O’Reilly, Wilfred Laurier UP, 2010, pp. 377-91.
“’Suckled by the sea:’ The Maternal in Moby-Dick.” Melville and Women, co-edited by Elizabeth Schultz and Haskell Springer, Kent State UP, 2006, pp. 181-98.
“Narrative Revelations: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Amber Gods’ Revisited.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 50, no. 4, 2004, pp. 233-67. [published in 2006]