Lara Whelan

My Professional Experience

Articles & Book Reviews

• Semi-Detached Empire: Suburbanization and the Colonization of Britain, 1800-Present by Todd Kutcha
  Journal of British Studies, vol. 51
  2012
• Between Worlds: Class Identity and Suburban Ghost Stories 1850-1880
  Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, vol. 35
  2002
• What Writing Students Get from the Net: Using Synchronous Communication to Develop Writerly Skills
  Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 6
  2001
• Lines in the Sand: A Defense of Suburban Turf in Later Victorian Literature.
  Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, vol. 18
  1997

Books & Book Chapters

• Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era
  Routledge
  2009
• Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late-Victorian England
  Palgrave Macmillan
  2005

Presentations

• When a Stranger Calls: Hospitality as a Call for Economic Transformation in Yeats and Hyde's Early Drama
  July, 2016
  IASIL, Cork, Republic of Ireland
• Stranger Danger: Performing Problematic Hospitality in Yeats' Pre-Rising Plays
  February, 2015
  American Council for Irish Studies South, Rome, Georgia
• The Twisting of the Rope: Hospitality, Community and Nationalism in the Irish Literary Revival
  February, 2009
  North-East Modern Language Association, Boston, Massachusetts
• Case Study: Theory and Practice of Implementing a Thinking-Into-Writing Model at Berry College
  November, 2008
  Writing Across a Critical Thinking Continuum: Bi-Annual Conference of the Quinnipiac University Writing Across the Curriculum Program, New Haven, Connecticut
• Engendering Critical Thinking in Student Discussion: Traditional v. Online Models
  March, 2004
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, Texas
• What is Truly There: Realism and Romance in Byatt's Portrayal of Possession's Victorians
  March, 2004
  North-East Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 'Scenes of Peace and Quietude': Challenges to the Suburban Ideal in Victorian Fiction
  July, 2003
  Literary London Conference, London, Great Britain
• The Clash of Space and Culture: Gissing and the Rise of the 'New' Suburban
  July, 2003
  Gissing and the City: A Centenary Conference, London, Great Britain
• Been There, Done That: Using Synchronous Communication to Help Students Recognize and Improve Critical Thinking and Argumentation
  March, 2003
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, New York
• Aristotle in the Chatroom: Modeling Ethos, Pathos and Logos in Real-Time Computer-Mediated Communication
  March, 2002
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, Illinois
• But Isn't it All Just a Lot of Chatter? Using Chat (and other Synchronous Media) Effectively
  September, 2001
  Shorter College Symposium on Teaching with Technology, Rome, Georgia
• Locating Suburban Anxieties in Ford Maddox Brown's Work--A Multimedia Presentation
  July, 2001
  Locating the Victorians, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
• Gothic Terrors: The Suburban Ruin and Sensation Fiction
  April, 2001
  Space, Culture, Power, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
• What Do Writing Students Get From the Net? Experiments in Synchronous Communication
  March, 2001
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, Colorado