Jennifer Mitchell '04

Publications

Books

Ordinary Masochisms: Agency and Desire in Victorian and Modernist Fiction. University Press of Florida, October, 2020.

The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s. Co-Editor, with Lizzie Harris McCormick and Rebecca Soares. Routledge, 2019.

Girls and the Awkward Politics of Privilege, Gender, and Race. Co-Editor, with Elwood Watson and Marc Shaw. Lexington Books, 2015.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Futurist Resistance: Critical Literacy, Gendered Dystopias, and Adolescent Agency,” College Literature, 48. 3 (2021): 466-495.

“Suffering Modernism.” Feminist Modernist Studies, 3.3 (2020): 302-309.

“Inadequate: a New Feminist Modernist Manifesto.” Feminist Modernist Studies, 3.3 (2020): 267-276. Co-author with Erica Delsandro, Laurel Harris, and Lauren Rosenblum.

“The Spell of Masochism: Mastery, Submission, and Suspense in D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox.” The D.H. Lawrence Review, 43.1-2 (2018):109-129.

“Cruelty, Subjectivity, and Masochistic Possibility in The Rainbow.” The D.H. Lawrence Review 41.2 (2016): 49-71.

“‘The Best Lesbian Show Ever!’: The Contemporary Evolution of Teen Coming-Out Narratives,” The Journal of Lesbian Studies. 19.4 (2015): 454-469.

“Flush, Courtship, and Suffering: Woolf in the Early 1930s.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany. 87 (2015).

“‘A girl. A machine. A freak.’: A Consideration of Contemporary Queer Composites.” Bookbird. 52.1 (2014): 51-62.

“‘A Sort of Mouse-Person’: Radicalizing Gender in Roald Dahl’s The Witches.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 23.1 (2012): 25-39.

“Queering Queer Theory, or Why Bisexuality Matters.” Journal of Bisexuality. 9.3/4 (2009): 297–315. Co-author, with Laura Erickson-Schroth. Reprinted in Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections, and Challenges, edited by Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini D’Onofrio, Routledge, 2011, pp. 105-124. [Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2012]

Book Chapters

“Fantastic Transformations: Queer Desires and ‘Uncanny Time’ in Work by Radclyffe Hall and Virginia Woolf.” The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s. Eds. Lizzie Harris McCormick, Jennifer Mitchell, and Rebecca Soares. Routledge, 2019. 152-166.

“Towards a Female Fantastic.” The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s, edited by Lizzie Harris McCormick, Jennifer Mitchell, and Rebecca Soares, Routledge, 2018, pp. xvii-xxxviii. Co-written with Lizzie McCormick and Rebecca Soares.

“She’s Just Not That Into You: Dating, Damage, and Gender,” Girls and the Awkward Politics of Privilege, Gender, and Race. Eds. Jennifer Mitchell, Elwood Watson, and Marc Shaw. Rowman and Littlefield. 2015. 9-26.

“‘A Mom-Shaped Hole’: The Dystopian Maternal.” Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Eds. Karen Coats and Lisa Fraustino. Jackson: U P of Mississippi, 2015. 236-252. [The Children’s Literature Association Edited Book Award Winner, 2018]

“Masochism and Marriage in The Rainbow and Ulysses.” Modernists at Odds: Reconsidering Joyce and Lawrence. Eds. Heather Lusty and Matthew J. Kochis. Gainesville: U P of Florida, 2015. 175-95. Co-author with Johannes Hendrikus Burgers.

“The Trouble with ‘Victim’: Triangulated Masochism in Jean Rhys’s Quartet.” Rhys Matters: New Critical Perspectives. Eds. Kerry Johnson and Mary Wilson. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2013. 189-211.

“Of Queer Necessity: Panem’s Hunger Games as Gender Games.” Of Bread, Blood, and The Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy. Eds. Mary Clark and Leila Pharr. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2012. 128-38.

“Not-So-Nice, Indeed: Mabel Maney, Girl Detectives, and Sexual Awakenings.” Murdering Miss Marple: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in the New Golden Age of Women’s Crime Fiction, edited by Julie Kim. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2012. 36-60.

Solicited Publications

“‘it was really rather fine to be suffering’: Radclyffe Hall at the Intersection of Queer Masochism and Religious Martyrdom.” The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion, edited by Suzanne Hobson and Andrew Radford, Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Review of Modernism, Sex, and Gender (2019) by Celia Marshik and Allison Pease. The D.H. Lawrence Review, 44.1, 2019.