Dawn Coleman

Dr. Coleman's research interests include religion and American culture, nineteenth-century American literature, and the Victorian novel. She is working on a book manuscript titled, "Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel," on how nineteenth-century American fiction appropriated the voice and figure of the popular preacher to establish its literary value and cultural authority.

Selected Publications

Representative articles

• “Wired Victorians.” review of Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture, by Jay Clayton, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, (2003/4) 2001-2004
• “No Love Story,” review of Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship, by Lillian Nayder, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 36.1 (2002) 126-128
• Review of Radical Passion: Ottilie Assing’s Reports from America and Letters to Frederick Douglass. Edited, translated, and introduced by Christoph Lohmann. MELUS, 26.4 (2001): 256-258.

Contact Information

Dawn Coleman
Assistant Professor
Department of English
407 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-1730
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: dcolema7@utk.edu

Education

B.A., UCLA
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D. Stanford University

Research

British and American Literature