Jennifer MacLure

Dr. MacLure joined the Kent State English department in 2017. Her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature and culture, history of science and medicine, and the medical humanities. She is currently working on a book project, which argues that Victorian authors used fiction to highlight and critique how various nineteenth-century systems of thought, from political economy to social Darwinism, both depended upon and systematically discarded certain groups of people.

Articles:

• "Diagnosing Capitalism: Vital Economics and the Structure of Sympathy in Gaskell's Industrial Novels." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 38.5 (2016): 343-352.
• "Rehearsing Social Justice: Temporal Ghettos and the Poetic Way Out in "Goblin Market" and "The Song of the Shirt.'" Victorian Poetry 53.2 (2015): 151-169.

Recent Presentations:

• "Antisocial Capitalism in Gaskell and Eliot." North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. Phoenix, AZ. 2016.
• "The Unnatural History of Sympathy in Elizabeth Gaskell's Industrial Novels." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Asheville, NC. (2016)
• "The Ethics of Contact in Bleak House." North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. Honolulu, HI. 2015.
• "Epidemic Communities: Global Travel and the Mobility of Disease in Two Years Ago." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Houston, TX. 2014.
• "Bodies in Postcomposition." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Las Vegas, NV. 2013.