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Course: The Oxford Fantasists

Dr. Emma Plaskitt BA (McGill), MPhil (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)

Lecturer in English Language and Literature

Dr. Plaskitt is a graduate of McGill University, Montréal, and Merton College, Oxford, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on eighteenth-century novelists Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and Frances Burney. Since 1994 she has taught English literature 1640–1901 for many Oxford colleges, including Brasenose, Worcester, Somerville, and St Hugh’s. Having worked for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, where she was responsible for writing many articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers, she now focuses on teaching for SCIO Study Abroad Programme based at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford and for Stanford University, for whom she is an Overseas Lecturer. She also teaches for Oxford’s Continuing Education Department international summer schools. Though a specialist on the literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century, her research interests include the Victorian novel—particularly the gothic novel and novel of sensation—and children’s literature. She is currently preparing a scholarly edition of the late Victorian gothic fantasy novel, Lilith, by George MacDonald.

Summer 2022 Course Syllabus