Deirdre McMahon, PhD
Teaching Professor of English, Department of English and Philosophy
Assistant Dean of Online Education, Drexel University Graduate College
Department of English and Philosophy
Education:
- PhD, English Literature, The University of Iowa, 2004
- MA, English Literature, University of Virginia
- BA, English Literature, Swarthmore College
Research Interests:
- Long Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Victorian Literature & Culture
- Material Studies; Race and Empire Studies
- Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Literatures
- Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Selected Publications:
- McMahon, Deirdre H. and Janet C. Myers, eds. The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain. Ashgate/Routledge: 2016.
- “Material Possessions: Introduction” (with Janet C. Myers). The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain. 1-20.
- “Tea, Gender, and Middle-Class Tastes.” Chapter in The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain. 135-54.
- “‘My own dear sons’: Discursive Maternity and Proper British Bodies in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 305, Gale, 2015. Literature Resource Center. Web. Originally pub. in Other Mothers, eds. Klaver and Rosenman.
- Review. Adam Barrows, The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature. KronoScope. 13.1 (2013): 167-71. Print.
- “‘Quick, Ethel, Your Rifle!’: Portable Britishness and Flexible Gender Roles in G.A. Henty’s Books for Boys.” Studies in the Novel. 42.1-2 (Spring and Summer 2010): 154-172. Print.
- “Response to John Streamas, ‘Closure and Colored People’s Time.’” Jo Alyson Parker, Paul Harris and Christian Steinecker, eds. Time: Limits and Constraints. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2010: 238-9. Print.
- ‘My own dear sons’: Discursive Maternity and Proper British Bodies in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.” Claudia Klaver and Ellen B. Rosenman, eds. Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2008: 181-201. Print.