Ruth M. McAdams
SENIOR teaching professor
B.A., summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania
M.Phil., University of Edinburgh
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Office: Palamountain 331
Phone: (518) 580-5174
Email: rmcadams@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Nineteenth-Century British literature
- Labor activism
- Historical fiction in a global context
- Theory of the novel
- Life-writing
- Writing Composition
Courses Taught:
- EN 105/105H: Writing Gender
- EN 105/105H: Work!
- EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
- EN 211: Fiction
- EN 362: Objects and Materials and/in 18th-Century Literature
- EN 362R: The 鈥淩ise鈥� of the Novel
- EN 364: The Historical Novel in a Global Context
- EN 371: Dostoevsky (independent study)
- EN389/390: Senior Thesis
- GN 371A: The English Major and Beyond
Selected Publications
- Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
- 鈥淩eligious Violence without Religion: Bleak Secular Stasis in Dickens鈥檚 Barnaby Rudge.鈥� Nineteenth-Century Literature [forthcoming]
- Victorian Literature and Culture, Activism Issue, vol. 51, no. 4, Winter 2023, pp. 555-567.
- 鈥溾�� Victorian Literature and Culture, Keywords Issue, vol. 46, no. 3/4, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 809-812. doi.org/10.1017/S1060150318000906.
- 鈥溾�� Victorian Studies, vol. 60, no. 1, Fall 2017, pp. 9-28. doi: 10.2979/victorianstudies.60.1.01.
- 鈥�Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 40, no.1, Fall 2017, pp. 33-50. doi: 10.1080/08905495.2017.1393735.
- With Theresa Tinkle, Daphna Atias, and Cordelia Zukerman. 鈥溾�� Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 13, no. 3, Fall 2013, pp. 505-535. doi: 10.1215/15314200-2266432.
Work in Progress
- 鈥淭he Regency of Pornography鈥� for Nineteenth Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s, edited by Emma Mason, Cambridge University Press [book chapter, under contract]
- 鈥�Romola at the Limits of Realism鈥� for The Cambridge History of Victorian Women鈥檚 Writing, edited by Carolyn Dever and Amy Kahrmann Huseby [book chapter, under contract, Cambridge University Press]
- 鈥淐hartist Poetry and the Fate of Research: A Song of the Low鈥� [article manuscript in progress]