DR. ANNE BOYD RIOUX

Associate Professor,
Coordinator of Undergraduate English
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1999

Anne Boyd Rioux received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University in 1999 and has been teaching at UNO since the Fall of 1999. She is a member of the Women's Studies faculty and teaches courses in American literature, with an emphasis on the 19th century, cultural studies, and gender. She has enjoyed teaching courses on Women and Authorship, American Literary Regionalism, and the American Novel to 1900. She is currently completing work on an anthology of Women's Writings on Authorship in Nineteenth-Century America, to be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. She has led two discussion series at the Latter Library on St. Charles Ave.: "In the Crosshairs: Louisiana's Hurricane Experience" and “The Creole identity in Louisiana Literature and History” The series were sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisiana Library Association.

Selected Publications:

"Domestic and Sentimental Fiction," in American History Through Literature, 1870-1920. Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 338-343.

Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Reviewed in American Literature, New England Quarterly, Legacy, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Journal of American Studies, Journal of American History, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, and American Literary Realism.

"Anticipating James, Anticipating Grief: Constance Fenimore Woolson's 'Miss Grief.'" Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 191-206.

Review of Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women's Fiction, 1885-1914, by Kate McCullough (Stanford UP, 1999). South Atlantic Review 65.1 (2000): 162-165.

"Lifestyles, Social Trends and Fashion" in American Eras: The Reform Era and Eastern U.S. Development, 1815-1850. Ed. Gerald Prokopowicz. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1998. 254-278.

"'What! Has she got into the "Atlantic"?': Women Writers, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Formation of the American Canon." American Studies 39. 3 (Fall 1998): 5-36.

Book Suggestions:

Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons (1862);
Constance Fenimore Woolson, Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (1879);
Sherwood Bonner, Like Unto Like (1878);
Colm Toibin, The Master (2005); Geraldine Brooks, March (2005).

Phone Number:
(504) 280-6194

Email Dr. Boyd Rioux@
aeboyd@uno.edu

Address:
Liberal Arts
Building 291

Office Hours:

MW 9:30-4:00pm
TTH 9:00-10:00am; 1:30-4:00pm

Courses for Fall 2009:

Engl 2031-002:
American Literature to 1865
TTH 11:00am-12:15pm