Associate Professor

office: 82A McReynolds
phone: 573-882-0666
email: westn@missouri.edu
web: web.missouri.edu/~westn
office hours: M,W, 2:00-3:00

Research and teaching areas:
Victorian literature and culture,
photographic history and theory,
crime literature and film, and
film adaptation

Nancy West

A 2004 winner of the William T. Kemper award for Outstanding Teaching, Nancy West has taught at MU since 1995, where she has also received two Gold Chalk Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and the inaugural EGSA award for Outstanding Graduate Faculty Member (2005). She has published articles in such journals as Narrative, Nineteenth Century Contexts, the Yale Journal of Criticism, Postscript, and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities. She has also guest-edited a special collection of essays on photography and apocalypse for Genre. Her first book, Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia, was published in 2000 by the University Press of Virginia. She is currently completing another book entitled Narrative Rivalries: Tabloid Journalism and the Hollywood Crime Film, which she is co-authoring with former MU graduate student Penelope Pelizzon. She plans to do her third book project on Masterpiece Theater and the issue of intercultural film adaptation.

Education
PhD 1992, University of North Carolina

Selected Publications

• Nancy West and Penelope Pelizzon. "Multiple Indemnity: Adaptation, James M. Cain, and the Tabloids."Narrative (Fall 2005) 35 pp. manuscript
• Nancy West and Penelope Pelizzon. "'Good Stories' from the Mean Streets: Weegee and Hard-Boiled Autobiography." Yale Journal of Criticism 17.1 (Spring 2004) pages 20-50
• Nancy West. "From Recreation to Remembrance: Kodak Advertising During George Eastman's Time."Image (Fall 2004) pages 11-18
• Nancy West. Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia University Press of Virginia, 2000 www.upress.virginia.edu

Courses Taught

• English 1810: Introduction to Film
• English 2000: Studies in English
• English 2008: The Life—and Afterlife—of Sherlock Holmes
• English 3110: Special Themes in Literature
• English 3200: Survey of British Literature
• English 3210
• English 3210: Survey of British Literature, Romanticism to the Present
• English 3210: Survey of British Literature, Romanticism to the Present
• English 4100/7100: Film Adaptations of Novels
• English 4250 - 19th-Century English Literature
• English 8110: Forms
• English 8250: Locating Literary England
• English 8250: Seminar in 19th Century British Literature
• English 8250: Studies in 19th-Century British Literature

Selected Awards

• EGSA Superior Graduate Faculty Award
• Gold Chalk Award
• William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching

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