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. Her first book, Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia, was published in 2000 by the University Press of Virginia. She has just completed another book, entitled Tabloid, Inc.: Crimes, News, Narratives (Ohio State UP, 2010), which she wrote with former MU graduate student Penelope Pelizzon. Currently, she is working on a cultural history of Masterpiece Theatre.

Education
PhD 1992, University of North Carolina

Selected Publications

• Nancy West and Leigh Dillard. "Miss Havisham on the Homefront." Nineteenth-Century Studies. (forthcoming).
• Nancy West. "The Celluloid Carmilla." in Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla. ed. Kathleen Costello-Sullivan. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2010.
• Nancy West. "Telling Time: Found Photographs and the Stories They Inspire." in Then is Now: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008.
• Nancy West and Penelope Pelizzon. "Multiple Indemnity: Adaptation, James M. Cain, and the Tabloids."Narrative (Fall 2005) 35 pp. manuscript
• Nancy West. Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia University Press of Virginia, 2000 www.upress.virginia.edu

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