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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