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University of Wyoming
Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Professor
The Novel; 19th-Century British Literature; British Culture; Scottish Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Literature/Film; Literary Theory; Comedy etc.

M.A. University of Edinburgh 1980; M.A. Brown University 1986; Ph.D. 1989
cmf@uwyo.edu • 307-766-5113 • Hoyt Hall 429

 

Office Hours: M-1-3, R 10-12

 

Research Interests
 

My research interests range widely through British Literature and Culture, with a current focus on Scottish writing. I also publish on the relationship between film and literature. Recent books include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford, 2005) and the edited book Culture, Nation and the New Scottish Parliament (Bucknell, 2008). For my general interest work, take a look at the introductions to the Barnes and Nobel Kidnapped, and Catriona. I am developing an Approaches to Teaching Robert Louis Stevenson volume with the MLA, an edition of Kidnapped for Edinburgh University Press, an edited volume on Scottish Science fiction and various contributions to the Edinburgh Companions series. My book projects include monographs on Burke and Hare, and on the idea of "coming home in Scottish literature."

MLA Session: Watching the (Scottish) Dectectives


HONORS and AWARDS

University of Wyoming

2007 
Extraordinary Merit in Research
Faculty Senate Speaker
Faculty Grant in Aid
International Travel Grant
Huntington-British Academy Research Award
Flittie Sabbatical Award
 
2006 
"Top Professor" Award, Mortar Board
Faculty Mentor (director) for Andromeda Hartwick, UW Outstanding Masters Thesis Award
 
2003
Extraordinary Merit in Research
 
2002
Faculty Mentor (director) for Tamara Linse, UW Outstanding Masters Thesis Award
 
2001
Extraordinary Merit in Teaching
 
2000  
"Top Professor" Award, Mortar Board
 
1998
Excellence in Advising
 
1993
John P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award
 
1991
"Top Professor" Award, Mortar Board

Publications

Forthcoming:
 
Articles:
 "Robert Louis Stevenson's Inland Voyage: The Sentimental Traveler in the Age of Exploration," for Penny Fielding, ed., Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Literature: Robert Louis Stevenson.
 
 "'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung': Listening to Waverley with an Un/conventional Ear," in Ian Duncan and Evan Gottlieb, eds., Approaches to Teaching Scott's Waverley Novels (MLA).
 
PUBLISHED WORKS
 
Book:
Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). (Also released on Oxford Scholarship Online.)
 
Edited books:
Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament (Lewisburg Pa: Bucknell UP, 2007).
Why the Novel Matters: A Postmodern Perplex, edited and introduced by Mark Spilka and Caroline McCraken-Flesher (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990).

Edited Journal:
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 16.1 (2001 special issue: Remembered Lives), edited and introduced by Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Jeanne Holland.

Articles:
"Scotland as Theory: Otherness and Instantiation from Mackenzie to the Last Minstrel," International Journal of Scottish Studies, Theory issue. 3 (Autumn/Winter 2007).
 
"Cross-Channel Stevenson: David Balfour and the Problem of Scottish Return," International Journal of Scottish Literature (online) 2 (Spring/Summer 2007).
 
"To make a prophet's profit: Carlyle, Scott, and the Metaphorics of Self-Valuation."
            Scottish Studies Review 7. 2 (Autumn 2006): 40-57.
 
"‘You can't go home again': From Scott to the Scottish Parliament," Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, Annual Bulletin (2006): 45-57.
 
"Carlyle, Irving, and the Problematics of Prophecy."
            Journal of Literature and Belief 25.1, 2 (2005): 25-54.
 
"A Tartan Politics: Couture and National Creativity in the New Scottish Parliament," Scottish Studies Review 3.1 (2002): 110-121.
 
"Celluloid Hiccups: the Returns of the Tale when Movies Chew on Books," Interdisciplinary Humanities 19 (2002 special issue: Dialogues of Film and Literature, edited by Donald Larsson): 75-86.
 
"Narrating the (Gendered) Nation in Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian," Nineteenth-Century Contexts 24 (2002): 291-316.
 
"The Fourth Peril of James Hogg: Walter Scott and the Demonology of Minstrelsy," Studies in Hogg and His World 11 (2000): 39-55.
 
"Dead Letter? A Walter Scott Manuscript at the University of Wyoming," Scott Newsletter 37 (2000): 2-8.
 
"‘The great disturber of the age': James Hogg at the King's Visit, 1822," Studies in Hogg and His World 9 (1998): 64-83.
 
"‘You can't go home again': James Hogg and the Problem of Scottish ‘Post-colonial' Return," Studies in Hogg and His World 8 (1997): 24-41.
 
"Speaking the Colonized Subject in Walter Scott's Malachi Malagrowther Letters," Studies in Scottish Literature 29 (1995/6): 73-84.
 
"The Incorporation of A Christmas Carol: A Tale of Seasonal Screening," Dickens Studies Annual 24 (1996): 93-118.
 
"Pro Matria Mori: Gendered Nationalism and Cultural Death in Scott's ‘The Highland Widow,'" Scottish Literary Journal 21.2 (1994): 69-78.
 
"Thinking Nationally/Writing Colonially? Scott, Stevenson and England," Novel 24 (1990/1): 296-318
 
Chapters in Books:
"'One City' of Fragments: Robert Louis Stevenson's Second Person City through David Daiches' Personal Eye," for William Baker, ed., David Daiches: A Celebration of His Life and Works (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2008).
 
"The Recuperation of Canon Fodder: Walter Scott's The Talisman," in Critical Essays on Walter Scott: The Waverley Novels, edited by Harry Shaw (NewYork:G.K. Hall, 1996): 202-217. (Reprinted from Carroll, ed., 1996).

"The Recuperation of Canon Fodder: Walter Scott's The Talisman," in No Small World: Visions and Revisions of World Literature, edited by Michael Carroll (Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996): 160-178.

"Cultural Projections: The ‘Strange Case' of Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Cinematic Response," in Narrative and Culture, edited by Janice Carlisle and Daniel A. Schwarz (Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1994): 179-199.

Refereed Proceedings/Transactions:

"Burking the Scottish Body: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Resurrection Men."
R. L. Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries, edited by Richard Drury and Richard Ambrosini (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006): 133-144.

"'A wo/man for a' that? Subverted Sex and Perverted Politics in The Heart of Midlothian," in Scott in Carnival, edited by J.M. Alexander and David Hewitt (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1993): 232-244.

 

 
 

Teaching:
Graduate courses: British Postcolonialisms, Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Eighteenth-Century Prose, Upper-division courses: Scottish Literature, Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century British Novel, Nineteenth-Century British Prose, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, British Comedy, Senior Seminar (theory capstone), Lower-division courses: Studies in Short Fiction, British Comedy (London), British Life and Culture (London), Shakespeares Comedies (London), Film and Literature, British Surveys I, II, III, Literatures in English Surveys I, II, Introduction to Literature (Writing 2), Freshman English (Writing 1)

 

Publications:

Book

Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott And The Story of Tomorrow
McCracken-Flesher

 

 

Affiliations, Associations, Consultation:

Memberships in Professional Societies 

British Association for Romantic Studies
Modern Language Association
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
James Hogg Society
Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society
Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

 
 

Press releases:

 

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