Regina Martin
Regina Martin researches British literature, 19thC-present, and literary and cultural theory. Her research interests in British literature have focused primarily on modernism, contemporary literature, economic criticism, and the history and theory of the novel. Her book, Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870-1940, was recently published by Cambridge University Press.
Learning & Teaching
English
- ENGL 202: Literary Theory
- ENGL 220: Twentieth-Century Literature
- ENGL 225/WGST 225: Women In Literature
- ENGL 310: Utopian Fiction/Utopian Practice
- ENGL 341: The London Novel
- ENGL 342: Contemporary Fiction and the Panopticon
- ENGL 367: Exoticism in Victorian Literature
- ENGL 367: Stories of Industrialism
- ENGL 400: Literature and Professional Life
Global Commerce
- GC 101: Commerce and Society
Works
Book
- Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870-1940, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Articles
- 鈥淟iterature and Professional Society: Modernism, Aesthetics, and Ian McEwan鈥檚 Saturday,鈥 College Literature, 2024, 51(3), 316-344.
- 鈥淩ealism and Representation,鈥 The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature, edited by Matthew Stratton, Routledge, 2023
- 鈥淭he Feminist Realism of Zadie Smith鈥檚 On Beauty,鈥 Modern Fiction Studies, 2019, 65(4) 579-598.
- 鈥淭he Economics of a Literary Life: Alfred Marshall鈥檚 Neoclassical Economics and George Gissing鈥檚 New Grub Street.鈥 The Routledge Companion to Economics and Literature, edited by Matthew Seybold and Michelle Chihara, Routledge, 2019.
- 鈥淪peculating Subjects: Keynes, Woolf, and Finance Capitalism.鈥 Modern Language Studies vol. 47, no. 1.
- 鈥淪tate and Corporate Dystopianism in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Dave Eggers鈥檚 The Circle.鈥 Critical Insights:Nineteen Eighty-Four, edited by Thomas Horan, Salem Press, 2016, pp. 55-69.
- 鈥淟ondon and Professional Society in H. G. Wells鈥檚 Tono-Bungay and Hanif Kureishi鈥檚 The Buddha of Suburbia.鈥 Studies in the Humanities vol. 42, nos. 1-2, 2015, pp. 82-107.
- 鈥淎bsentee Capitalism and the Politics of Conrad鈥檚 Imperial Novels.鈥 PMLA vol. 130, no. 3, 2015, pp. 584-598.
- 鈥淔inance Capitalism and the Creeping London of Howards End and Tono-Bungay,鈥 Criticism vol. 55 no. 3, 2013, pp. 447-469.
- 鈥淭he Country and the City in Jean Rhys鈥檚 Voyage in the Dark.鈥 Rhys Matters: New Critical Perspectives, edited by Mary Wilson and Kerry Johnson, Palgrave, 2013, pp. 133-149.
- 鈥溾楾he Drama of Gender and Genre in Edith Wharton鈥檚 Realism,鈥 Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 58, no. 4, 2012, pp. 582-605.
- 鈥淪pecters of Romance: The Female Quixote and Domestic Fiction,鈥 The Eighteenth-Century Novel, vol. 8, 2011, pp. 147-66.
Other
In February 2015, Regina received a Mellon funded Ohio Five Digital Scholarship grant to develop a project called, 鈥淟iterature and Professional Life: A Digital Life Stories Collection.鈥 The project collects and archives interviews with 性视界传媒 English department alumni, who explain how they built careers our of their English degrees and discuss the role that literature has played in their personal and professional lives.
In October 2014, Regina was awarded the Kenneth M. Roemer Innovative Course Design from the Society for Utopian Studies for her course proposal entitled 鈥淯topian Fiction | Utopian Practice.鈥
