Department of English > Faculty > Dr. Marcy Hess
English Department Faculty
Dr. Marcy Hess
Associate Professor of English
Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty
2002-Present
Office: WH 105
Phone: 293-6262
Email: mahess@valdosta.edu
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SPRING 2008 SCHEDULE
| ENGL 2130-E | TU TH 12:30-1:45 P.M. | WH 153 |
| ENGL 2130-F | TU TH 5:00-6:15 P.M. |
WH 153 |
ENGL 4900-B |
TU TH 11:00-12:15 P.M. | WH 262 |
OFFICE HOURS: WED 10:00-12:00 P.M., WED 6:30 P.M., AND BY APPOINTMENT
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Education
Doctor of Philosophy in English
Nineteenth Century British Literature and Culture
The University of Alabama
August 2001
Master of Arts
British Literature; Critical Theory; American Literature
The University of Alabama
May 1994
Bachelor of Arts
Summa Cum Laude, English
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
May 1992
Publications
"W.R. Greg's 'Prostitution': The Rhetoric of Contagion and Victorian Britain's 'Great Social Evil'." Georgia Philological Association Journal. 1: December 2006. 8-36.
"Oliver Twist, Dickens's Nancy, and the 'Truth' of Victorian Prostitution." EAPSU Online Journal. 2:2006. 74-97.
"Victorian Novels." The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work. Ed. Melissa Hope Ditmore. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2006.
"William Acton." The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work. Ed. Melissa Hope Ditmore. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Dissertation
"Discursive Decontamination: Domesticating the Great Social Evil in Early Victorian Novels."
The Outstanding Dissertation Award 2002, Arts and Sciences Division, The University of Alabama
Director: Peter Melville Logan
Select Conference Presentations
"The 'Great Social Evil': Victorian Rhetorics of Contagion and W.R. Greg's 'Prostitution'." Georgia Philological Association, Brewton-Parker College, Mount Vernon, GA. April 21, 2006.
"Oliver Twist, Dickens's Nancy, and the 'Truth' of Victorian Prostitution." International Conference on Truth and Mendacity in Literature in the Visual Arts, Including Cinema, Atlanta, GA. October 23, 2004.
"In the Interest of the National Defense: Early Victorian Print Culture and the Contagious Diseases Acts." West Virginia University Colloquium on Literature and Film, Morgantown, WV. September 19, 2003.
"William Acton's 'Prostitution'." Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. October 30, 1997.
"Medical Realism and Prostitution." Sigma Tau Delta International English Honors Society Annual Convention, Savannah, GA. March 20, 1997.