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Deborah Denenholz Morse

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Deborah Denenholz Morse is the inaugural Sara E. Nance Professor of English at The College of William and Mary. She is the author of the first feminist study of Anthony Trollope, Women in Trollope's Palliser Novels (UMI Research Press 1987/Boydell & Brewer, 1991), and the recent Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (Ashgate 2013). She is also the co-editor of the collections The Erotics of Instruction (with Regina Barreca, UPNE), Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture (with Martin Danahay, Ashgate), The Politics of Gender in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (with Margaret Markwick and Regenia Gagnier, Ashgate); The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope (with Margaret Markwick and Mark Turner); Companion to the Brontes (Blackwell, with Diane Long Hoeveler); Time, Space, and Place in Charlotte Bronte (Routledge, with Diane Long Hoeveler); and three bicentenary volumes for *Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature*, on Anthony Trollope (with Margaret Markwick, 2015), on Charlotte Bronte (with Amber Pouliot, 2016), and on Emily Bronte (with Amber Pouliot, forthcoming fall 2018, U of Ohio). Deborah is also part of a global Brontes editorial team for Cambridge University Press, General Editor Christine Alexander. Professor Morse has published articles on Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mona Simpson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Hesba Stretton, Elizabeth Coles Taylor, A.S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, and Kay Boyle as well as essays on Trollope, and in Animal Studies. She was one of the Inaugural University Professors for Teaching Excellence at the College, and was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the Thomas A. Graves Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching in 2008 and the Devin and Jennifer Murphy Award for Outstanding Integration of Research and Teaching in 2009. For five years, until December 2009, Deborah Morse was Essay Submissions Editor for Victorians Institute Journal. She spoke about A.S. Byatt on National Public Radio in December of 2003 and on Downton Abbey in January of 2013. She was elected to the executive board of North American Victorian Studies in 2013 and served through 2017.
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