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English Department

Ruth McAdamsRuth M. McAdams

SENIOR teaching professor

B.A., summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania
M.Phil., University of Edinburgh
Ph.D., University of Michigan

Office: Palamountain 331
Phone: (518) 580-5174
Email: rmcadams@skidmore.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching and Research Interests:

  • Nineteenth-Century British literature
  • Labor activism
  • Historical fiction in a global context
  • Theory of the novel
  • Life-writing
  • Writing Composition

Courses Taught:

  • EN 105/105H: Writing Gender
  • EN 105/105H: Work!
  • EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 211: Fiction
  • EN 362: Objects and Materials and/in 18th-Century Literature
  • EN 362R: The “Rise” of the Novel 
  • EN 364: The Historical Novel in a Global Context
  • EN 371: Dostoevsky (independent study)
  • EN389/390: Senior Thesis
  • GN 371A: The English Major and Beyond

Selected Publications

  • Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
  • “Religious Violence without Religion: Bleak Secular Stasis in Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge.Nineteenth-Century Literature [forthcoming]
  •  Victorian Literature and Culture, Activism Issue, vol. 51, no. 4, Winter 2023, pp. 555-567.
  • “” Victorian Literature and Culture, Keywords Issue, vol. 46, no. 3/4, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 809-812. doi.org/10.1017/S1060150318000906.
  • “” Victorian Studies, vol. 60, no. 1, Fall 2017, pp. 9-28. doi: 10.2979/victorianstudies.60.1.01.
  • Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 40, no.1, Fall 2017, pp. 33-50. doi: 10.1080/08905495.2017.1393735.
  • With Theresa Tinkle, Daphna Atias, and Cordelia Zukerman. “” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 13, no. 3, Fall 2013, pp. 505-535. doi: 10.1215/15314200-2266432.

Work in Progress

  • “The Regency of Pornography” for Nineteenth Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s, edited by Emma Mason, Cambridge University Press [book chapter, under contract]
  • Romola at the Limits of Realism” for The Cambridge History of Victorian Women’s Writing, edited by Carolyn Dever and Amy Kahrmann Huseby [book chapter, under contract, Cambridge University Press]
  • “Chartist Poetry and the Fate of Research: A Song of the Low” [article manuscript in progress]