Julie Melnyk

Dr. Julie Melnyk is Associate Director of the Honors College and Coordinator of the interdisciplinary Humanities Sequence. In addition to producing numerous articles and scholarly presentations on nineteenth-century women's literature, she has edited two collections of original scholarly essays: Women's Theology in 19th-Century Britain (1998) and, with Nanora Sweet, Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the 19th Century (2001). Her latest book is Victorian Religion: Faith and Life in Britain (2008). Her book on Christianity, Community, and Subjectivity in Victorian Women's Religious Literature is currently under consideration at Ashgate.

Education
B.A. Haverford College, Summa Cum Laude, English and Math
M.Phil., Oxford University, English Literature 1789-1880
Ph.D., University of Virginia, English

Selected Publications

• Julie Melnyk. Victorian Religion: Faith and Life in Britain (Greenwood/Praeger, 2008) www.greenwood.com
• Julie Melnyk. "Victorian Religious Women Writers and Communal Identities." AVSJ 10 (2004): 70-90.
• Julie Melnyk and Nanora Sweet, eds. Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001) www.palgrave.com
• Julie Melnyk, ed. Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers (Garland, 1998) www.taylorandfrancis.com

Courses Taught

• English 2200H: Love in British Literature
• English 2200H: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers
• Honors 1050: Exploring the Arts at MU
• The Honors College Humanities Sequence

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