Patricia Frick

Patricia Frick

Phone
614-823-1572

Email
pfrick@otterbein.edu

Office
Towers Hall 229

Professor
Department of English

Specializations: Victorian British literatures and culture, especially the novel; Victorian women, gender, and identity; Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson.

Scholarship: My recent scholarship has focused on Victorian places and spaces, particularly the use of markets and marketplaces in Dickens’ depictions of Victorian London. My essays have appeared in International Journal of Women鈥檚 Studies, Philological Quarterly, and VIJ: Victorians Institute Journal.

Recent or new topical courses: “The Victorian Novel,” “Our Monsters, Ourselves,” and “Literary London,” 鈥淭he Strange Case of Edinburgh: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 鈥� “Molls, Femme Fatales, and Tricksters: Gender and Criminality.”

Senior project interests: Anything to do with the Victorians, their culture, their revival in modern film and art; Victorian women, gender roles, and identities; spaces and places in British literatures (e.g. London, Edinburgh, Dublin); ghosts, doubles, and all things monstrous in the literary landscape; Sherlock Holmes, sensation fiction, and crime novels; the “other” Victorians — Oscar Wilde and company.

Education

  • B.A., University of Rochester, 1973
  • M.A., University of Toronto, 1974
  • Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1979

Research, Creative, & Professional Work

  • Victorian literature and culture
  • The history and cultures of monsters
  • Literary London and Edinburgh
  • Wilkie Collins and Dickens
  • Women's Literature
Specializations:Victorian British literatures and culture, especially the novel; Victorian women, gender, and identity; Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson. Scholarship:My recent scholarship has focused on Victorian places and spaces, particularly the use of markets and marketplaces in Dickens' depictions of Victorian London. My essays have appeared in International Journal of Women鈥檚 Studies, Philological Quarterly, and VIJ: Victorians Institute Journal. Recent or new topical courses:"The Victorian Novel," "Our Monsters, Ourselves," and "Literary London," 鈥淭he Strange Case of Edinburgh: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 鈥� "Molls, Femme Fatales, and Tricksters:Gender and Criminality." Senior project interests:Anything to do with the Victorians, their culture, their revival in modern film and art; Victorian women, gender roles, and identities; spaces and places in British literatures (e.g. London, Edinburgh, Dublin); ghosts, doubles, and all things monstrous in the literary landscape;Sherlock Holmes, sensation fiction, and crime novels; the "other" Victorians -- Oscar Wilde and company.

Publications

  • 鈥淲ilkie Collins and John Ruskin鈥�, Victorians Institute Journal, Vol, 13, 1985
  • "The Fallen Angels of Wilkie Collins,鈥� International Journal of Women's Studies, September/October 1984
  • 鈥淲ilkie Collins 鈥楲ittle Gem鈥�: The Meaning of The Moonstone鈥�, Philological Quarterly, Fall, 1984. Reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Mullane, Gale Press, 1988
  • 鈥淭he Importance of Being Earnest: The Fairy Tale in 19th Century England鈥�, Children鈥檚 Literature Quarterly, Spring, 1981
"To travel is hopefully a better thing than to arrive." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Affiliations & Awards

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Mortar Board
  • Midwest Victorian Studies Association
  • North American Victorian Studies Association
  • Sigma Tau Delta International English Honorary (faculty sponsor)
  • McGregor Award for INST Curriculum Development
  • Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellowship to Harvard University (one of 16 awarded nationally; fellowship included teaching a course on Dickens and Wilkie Collins for the English Department and independent research, 1981-82)