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Ellen Brinks

Associate Professor. B.A., Philosophy and German, Agnes Scott College, M.A., German Literature, Millersville University (all study done at the Phillipps Universität, Marburg, Germany), Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Princeton University.

Professor Brinks teaches courses in British Romanticism, the Victorian period, literary theory, gothic literature and film, colonial and postcolonial literatures, and the humanities. Her research explores the cultural context of gender and sexuality and the tensions between individual and social expressions of identity. She has published essays on women and seventeenth-century cartography, on the intersection of economics and sexuality in contemporary film, and on gothic representation and traumatic history. Her book, Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism, appeared in 2003 with Bucknell University Press. She is currently at work on a book-length project on Indian women writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Phone: 970 491 5909
Email Address: Ellen.Brinks@colostate.edu

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