The University of San Diego

       Department of English

            Associate Professor, English

Office: Founders 173B

Phone: 619.260.4576

Email: mhotz@sandiego.edu

Areas of Study

 19^th century British literature and history, Victorian cultural studies and theory, Native-American literatures, literature of travel.

Background

            Ph.D. The University of Chicago, 1997; M.A. The University of Chicago, 1986;

B.A. The College of Saint Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1976. Teaching at the University of San Diego since 1996.

Publications

 “Precious to Grace: Necessary Desolation in Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard. Renascence, Volume 53, No. 3 (Spring 2001): 207-226.

            “A Grave with No Name: Representations of Death in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton.”                         Nineteenth-Century Studies, Volume 15 (2001): 37-56.

“Down Among the Dead: Edwin Chadwick and Burial Reform Discourse in Mid- Nineteenth-Century England.” Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume 29, number 1 (2001): 21-38.

“‘Taught By Death What Life Should Be’: Representation of Death in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South.” Studies in the Novel, Volume 32, number 2 (Summer 2000): 165-184.

Work in Progress

Literary Remains, which examines the representation of death and burial in Victorian England.

Activities, Service, Awards

            Resident Scholar, Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, 2002-2003

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