Deanna Kreisel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

Before coming to the University of Mississippi, Deanna Kreisel taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver for 13 years. She works on feminist theory, political economy, environmental criticism, and the 19th-century British novel. Her first book, Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2012. She is currently working on a book entitled Sustainability and Utopian Form in Victorian Literature and Culture 1840-1905. More information about her scholarship and publications is available on her website: www.deannakreisel.com.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Feminist and queer theory, eco-feminist theory