Pamela Gilbert
Professor
Pamela Gilbert received her PhD in English from the University of Southern California in 1994. She has published widely in the areas of Victorian literature, cultural studies and history of medicine. Her first book, Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997, followed by Mapping the Victorian Social Body (SUNY Press, 2004) and The Citizen’s Body (Ohio State University Press, 2007), and Cholera and Nation (SUNY Press, 2008). She has edited a collection entitled Imagined Londons (SUNY Press, 2002), and co-edited Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context (SUNY Press, 1999, with Marlene Tromp and Aeron Haynie). She is series editor of SUNY Press’s series Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Her articles include “Interdisciplinarity and the Body,” an introductory essay for a special issue she edited of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net; “Dangers Lurking Everywhere: Sex Offenders as Pollution,” in Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination; “Islands in A Filthy Stream: Medical Mapping, The Thames, and the Body in Our Mutual Friend,” published in the edited collection Filth; “Mapping Colonial Disease: Victorian Medical Cartography in British India,” in Framing and Imagining Disease; “Producing the Public: Public Medicine in Private Spaces” in Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600–2000; “Mapping the Social Body of Nineteenth Century London” in Imagined Londons; “‘Scarcely To Be Described’: Urban Extremes as Real Spaces and Mythic Places in the London Cholera Epidemic of 1854” in Nineteenth Century Studies; “M.E. Braddon and Victorian Realism: Joshua Haggard’s Daughter” in Mary Elizabeth Braddon In Context; “Ouida and the Other New Woman” in Victorian Woman Writers and the Woman Question. She is currently working on articles on the geographic turn in cultural studies, the history of the body in nineteenth century Britain, and eschatological discourse in Chartist poetry, as well as editing Rhoda Broughton’s nineteenth-century novel Cometh Up as a Flower for Broadview Press. She is also beginning an edited project for Blackwell, a Companion to Sensation Fiction.
Professor Gilbert’s research interests include gender, the Victorian novel, genre, the body, and Victorian cultural and medical history. She teaches courses in the following areas: Victorian literature; feminisms, genders, and sexualities; and cultural studies. She currently chairs the Department of English.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4320
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 294
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <pgilbert@english.ufl.edu>