Pamela Gilbert
Albert Brick Professor
Pamela K. Gilbert received her PhD in English from the University of Southern California in 1994. She has published widely in the areas of Victorian literature, cultural studies and the history of medicine. Her first book, Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997, followed by Mapping the Victorian Social Body (SUNY Press, 2004) and The Citizen’s Body (Ohio State University Press, 2007), and Cholera and Nation (SUNY Press, 2008). She has edited a collection entitled Imagined Londons (SUNY Press, 2002), and co-edited Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context (SUNY Press, 1999, with Marlene Tromp and Aeron Haynie). She has also edited a teaching and scholarly edition of Rhoda Broughton’s novel, Cometh Up as a Flower (Broadview Press 2010).
Her articles include “‘A Nation of Good Animals’: Popular Beliefs and the Body,” in A Cultural History of the Body; “Feminism and the Canon: Recovery and Reconsideration of Popular Novelists” in Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth Century Women Writers; "History and its Ends in Chartist Epic" in Victorian Literature and Culture; “The Idea of the City: Epilogue” in The Idea of the City; “Sex and the Modern City: English Studies and The Spatial Turn,” in The Spatial Turn; “Interdisciplinarity and the Body,” an introductory essay for a special issue of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net; “Dangers Lurking Everywhere: Sex Offenders as Pollution,” in Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination; “Islands in A Filthy Stream: Medical Mapping, The Thames, and the Body in Our Mutual Friend,” published in the edited collection Filth; “Mapping Colonial Disease: Victorian Medical Cartography in British India,” in Framing and Imagining Disease; “Producing the Public: Public Medicine in Private Spaces” in Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600–2000; “Mapping the Social Body of Nineteenth Century London” in Imagined Londons; “‘Scarcely To Be Described’: Urban Extremes as Real Spaces and Mythic Places in the London Cholera Epidemic of 1854” in Nineteenth Century Studies; “M.E. Braddon and Victorian Realism: Joshua Haggard’s Daughter” in Mary Elizabeth Braddon In Context; “Ouida and the Other New Woman” in Victorian Woman Writers and the Woman Question. She is currently working on the history of the body in nineteenth century Britain. She is the editor of the forthcoming Companion to Sensation Fiction (Blackwell, 2011).
Professor Gilbert chaired the Department of English from May 2007- May 2011. Her research interests include gender, the Victorian novel, the body, Victorian cultural and medical history, and medical humanities. She teaches courses in the following areas: Victorian literature; feminisms, genders, and sexualities; and cultural studies.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4008-D
- voice: (352) 294-2828
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <pgilbert@english.ufl.edu>