Jessica Campbell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Director of Honors Program
Office: Carnegie Hall 205
Phone: (618) 537-6890
Education
Ph.D., English Literature, University of Washington (2015)
M.A., English Literature, University of Washington
B.A., English and American Literatures, Middlebury College (2009)
Teaching Interests
Romantic, Victorian, and 20th/21st-Century British Literature
World Literature
Literary Theory
Composition
Fairy Tales
Publications
Articles/Chapters
“Real Women Have Skins: The Enchanted Bride Tale in Her Body and Other Parties.” Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 33.2 (Fall 2019).
“Teaching Composition with Fairy Tales: Two Approaches,” in Beyond the Frontier: Innovations in First-Year Composition, Anthology II, ed. Jill Dahlman and Tammy Winner (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018).
“Bluebeard and the Beast: The Mysterious Realism of Jane Eyre.” Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 30.2 (Fall 2016): 234-50.
“Anne Brontë’s Realist Bluebeard.” Brontë Studies 41.4 (November 2016): 350-60.
“‘Beauty and the Beast’ and Great Expectations.” Dickens Quarterly 31.1 (March 2014): 32-41.
“The Good Place That Cannot Be: Visual Representations of Utopia on Mad Men,” in Mad Men, Women and Children: Gender and Generation in Mad Men, ed. Heather Marcovitch and Nancy Batty (Lexington Books, 2012): 91-104.
Reviews
After Alice by Gregory Maguire, in Public Books (April 2016).
The Fairy Way of Writing: Shakespeare to Tolkien by Kevin Pask, in Modern Language Quarterly 77:2 (June 2016).
Fairy Tales, Natural History, and Victorian Culture by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, in Victorian Periodicals Review 48:2 (Summer 2015): 283-284.
Works in Progress
The Brontës and the Fairy Tale from Angria to England [monograph]
Teaching Philosophy
In both composition and literature courses, I endeavor to balance high standards with
scaffolding that meets students where they are. Centrally, I require students to read
and write about difficult texts while keeping several things in view: that there are
many ways to write well, that I am available to help them, that a person may both
analyze and enjoy a text, and that the ultimate goal is for them to acquire skills
that they can leverage in future academic and professional contexts.
Awards
Joan Webber Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Washington, 2013
Organizations & Memberships
Modern Language Association
American Folklore Society
North American Victorian Studies Association
Children’s Literature Association