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Amy Billone

Professor Billone's specialty is 19th Century British literature. She also has a background in 19th Century French Literature, specifically French poetry. She is currently teaching Romantic Women Writers and Victorian Poetry and Prose.

Selected Publications

Books

  • Little Songs: Women, Silence and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet.  Forthcoming with The Ohio State University Press (estimated date of publication March 2007)
  • Introduction, Notes, and For Further Reading.  Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.  New York, Barnes and Noble Classics (Fall 2005).

Representative articles

  • “Mirrors Clear: Conflating the Lyrical, Pictorial and the Dramatic in Tennyson’s Early Poetry.”  SEL Studies in English Literature (Special Issue) (Forthcoming 2008)
  • Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. Introduction, Notes, and For Further Reading. New York. Barnes & Noble Classics (2005)
  • “Swallowing Sorrow: Women and the Eighteenth-Century Sonnet,” Augustan Studies (2005): 72-91
  • “The Boy Who Lived: From Carroll’s Alice and Barrie’s Peter Pan to Rowling’s Harry Potter,” Children Literature 32 (2004): 178-202
  • “’Keep my Secret’ Hidden Reference to French Literature in the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett,” Browning Society Notes 29 (January 2004)
  • “Hovering between Irony and Innocence: George MacDonald’s ‘The Light Princess’ and the Gravity of Childhood,” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 37, no. 1 (March 2004): 135-148
  • "Breaking 'the Silent Sabbath of the Grave': Charlotte Smith's Quiet Gaze At Grief." Silence, Sublimity and Supression in the Romantic Period. Ed. Fiona Price and S.J. Masson, (New York: Mellen Press, 2002)
  • "Cette Blanche Agonie': Baudelaire, Mallarme, and the Ice of Sound." Nineteenth Century French Studies 29:3-4, 2001, 287-301
  • "In Silence like to Death': Elizabeth Barrett's Sonnet Turn." Victorian Poetry 39, no. 4 (2001): 533-550
  • Translation from the French: Chrétien, Jean-Pierre, “Burundi: The Obsession with Genocide,” Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, Vol. 95, No. 601 (May 1996): 206-210.

Poems in Knoxville Bound, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Bellowing Ark, Cotyledon, Poetry Review, Abbey, The Hurricane Review, Byline Magazine, Illuminations, An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing, Mobius, The Poetry Magazine, Plainsongs, Red Rock Review, New Millennium Writings, Small Brushes, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Connecticut River Review.


Amy Billone

Contact Information

Amy Billone
Associate Professor
Department of English
416 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6966
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: abillone@utk.edu

Education

B.A., University of Chicago
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Research

British Literature, Children's Literature