HR job title
- Associate Professor
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O'Farrell, Mary Ann Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences
My areas of interest include nineteenth-century literature and culture, the novel, history and discourses of the body, literary and cultural theory, and contemporary popular culture.
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Overview
Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2019).
Victorians undone: tales of the flesh in the age of decorum. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: an interdisciplinary journal.
41(3), 347-349.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2014).
Henry James's Jolie Laide. The Henry James Review.
35(3), 226-231.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2012).
Blindness Envy: Victorians in the Parlors of the Blind. PMLA.
127(3), 512-+.
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O'farrell, M. A.
(2012).
Meditating Much Upon Forks: Manners and Manner in Jane Austens Novels. Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal.
99-110.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2010).
The Laughter of the Diviners, or Manners and the Sacred. The Henry James Review.
31(1), 27-31.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2010).
Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Victorian Studies.
53(1), 165-167.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2007).
Common scents: Comparative encounters in high-Victorian fiction. Victorian Studies.
49(2), 328-329.
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O'farrell, M. A.
(2006).
Sister Acts. Women's Studies Quarterly.
34(3/4), 154-173.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2006).
Missing Jane Austen: Henry James considers the old maid. The Henry James Review.
27(1), 1-9.
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Matthews, P. R., & O'Farrell, M. A.
(2001).
Introduction: Whose Body?. South Central Review.
18(3/4), 1-5.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2001).
Self-consciousness and the psoriatic personality: considering updike and potter. Literature and Medicine.
20(2), 133-150.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(1994).
Austen's Blush. Novel: A Forum on Fiction.
27(2), 125-125.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2019).
Victorians undone: tales of the flesh in the age of decorum. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: an interdisciplinary journal.
41(3), 347-349.
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book
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(1997).
Telling Complexions The Nineteenth-century English Novel and the Blush. Duke University Press.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(1997).
Telling Complexions The Nineteenth-century English Novel and the Blush. Duke University Press.
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chapter
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2022).
Austen's Teasing, or What the Wit Wants. Nachumi, N., & Oppenheim, S. (Eds.),
Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond.
(pp. 15-29).
University of Rochester Press.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2015).
Introduction. The Duties of a Lady's Maid: With Directions for Conduct and Numerous Receipts for the Toilette.
(pp. v-xxiii).
Chawton House Press.
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OFarrell, M. A.
(2014).
Compassion, The Culture and Politics of an Emotion. Berlant, L. (Eds.),
Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion.
(pp. 145-158).
Taylor & Francis.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2012).
'Bin Laden a Huge Jane Austen Fan': Jane Austen in Contemporary Political Discourse. Dow, G., & Hanson, C. (Eds.),
USES OF AUSTEN: JANE'S AFTERLIVES.
(pp. 192-207).
Springer Nature.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2012).
Bump: Concussive Knowledge in James and Hitchcock. Griffin, S. M., & Nadel, A. (Eds.),
The Men Who Knew Too Much Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock.
(pp. 73-84).
OUP USA.
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O'farrell, M. A.
(2012).
Dickens's scar: Rosa Dartle and David Copperfield. Nayder, L. (Eds.),
Dickens, Sexuality and Gender.
(pp. 327-362).
Ashgate Publishing.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2010).
Manners. McWhirter, D. (Eds.),
Henry James in Context.
(pp. 192-202).
Cambridge University Press.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2009).
Austenian Subcultures. A Companion to Jane Austen.
(pp. 478-487).
Wiley.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2005).
Words to do with things reading about Willa Cather and material culture. Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing The Real World.
(pp. 207-217).
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O'farrell, M. A.
(1997).
Dickenss Scar: Rosa Dartle and David Copperfield. Telling Complexions The Nineteenth-century English Novel and the Blush.
(pp. 82-110).
Duke University Press.
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O'Farrell, M. A.
(2022).
Austen's Teasing, or What the Wit Wants. Nachumi, N., & Oppenheim, S. (Eds.),
Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond.
(pp. 15-29).
University of Rochester Press.
editor of
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book
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O'Farrell, M. A., & Vallone, L..
Virtual Gender Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment
University of Michigan Press.
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O'Farrell, M. A., & Vallone, L..
Virtual Gender Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment
University of Michigan Press.
Teaching
teaching activities
- ENGL232 Survey Of English Lit Ii Instructor
- ENGL303 Approaches Engl Studies Instructor
- ENGL303 Approaches Engl Studies Instructor
- ENGL356 Literature And Film Instructor
- ENGL377 British Novel To 1870 Instructor
- ENGL378 Brit Novel 1870-present Instructor
- ENGL394 Studies In Genre Instructor
- ENGL395 Topics In Lit & Medicine Instructor
- ENGL415 Hnr-st Mj Athr: Dickens Instructor
- ENGL474 Studies Women Writers Instructor
- ENGL481 Blindness & Representation Instructor
- ENGL481 Sr Sem: Cultural Jane Austen Instructor
- ENGL481 Sr Sem: Dickens Instructor
- ENGL481 Sr Sem: Dickens And Dickensian Instructor
- ENGL481 The Cultural Jane Austen Instructor
- ENGL485 Directed Studies Instructor
- ENGL491 Hnr-research Instructor
- ENGL497 Hnr-indpdnt Hnr Studies: In-ab Instructor
- ENGL623 Topics In Creative Writ Instructor
- ENGL634 Readings 19 Cen Brit Lit Instructor
- ENGL642 Topics In Genre Instructor
- ENGL665 Tp Cultural Studies: Vanity Instructor
- ENGL685 Directed Studies Instructor
- ENGL691 Research Instructor
- ENGL695 Publication & Profession Instructor
- FILM356 Literature And Film Instructor
- WGST474 Studies Women Writers Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Cantrell, Samantha E. (2005-08). Housing sexuality: domestic space and the development of female sexuality in the fiction of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
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Cheshier, Laura Kay (2007-09). Symptomatic identities: lovesickness and the nineteenth-century British novel.
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Durgan, Jessica (2012-07). Color, the Visual Arts, and Representations of Otherness in the Victorian Novel.
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Haitos, Alexander Nicholas (2015-10). Pitfalls of Perfection: Rethinking Hawthorne's Treatment of Science and the Danger of Extremes in "The Artist of the Beautiful" and "The Birthmark".
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Himes, Amanda E. (2007-04). Looking for comfort: heroines, readers, and Jane Austen's novels.
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Hyun, Sook K. (2010-01). Storytelling and Self-Formation in Nineteenth-Century British Novels.
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Lee, Joori (2013-08). The Making of Beauty: Aesthetic Spaces in the Fiction of D. H. Lawrence, Muriel Spark, and Virginia Woolf.
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Montz, Amy Louise (2009-05). Dressing for England: fashion and nationalism in victorian novels.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in English, University of California, Berkeley - (Berkeley, California, United States) 1991
- B.A. in English, New York University - (New York, New York, United States) 1980
Contact
first name
- Mary Ann
has last name
- O'Farrell
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
English
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
USA
Other
In the News
- maof@tamu.edu