Taylor Walle Associate Professor of English

Washington Hall 108
540-458-8362
wallet@wlu.edu

Education

BA, English, Washington and Lee University
MSt, Women's Studies, University of Oxford, Kellogg College
PhD, English, University of California, Los Angeles

Research

18th- and early 19th-century British literature; orality and literacy; literature by women; women's and gender studies

Teaching

ENGL 413 - Senior Research and Writing: "Adaptation, Homage, and Literary Fan Culture"
ENGL 394 - Topics in Literature in English since 1900: Between the Acts: The Life and Writing of Virginia Woolf
ENGL 393 - Topics in Literature in English from 1700-1900: The Mad, Bad Women of the Eighteenth Century
ENGL 335 - 18th-Century Novels: Jane Austen: Radical Jane: The Politics of Class, Gender, and Race in Austen's "Polite" Fiction
ENGL 299 - Seminar for Prospective Majors: Weeping Men and Fainting Women: Gender and Emotion in 18th-Century Lit
ENGL 294 - Topics in World Literature in English: Jane in the Modern World
ENGL 292 - Topics in British Literature: Literature of the British Slave Trade, 1688-2016
ENGL 292 - Topics in British Literature: A Monstrous Creation: Frankenstein and its Intertexts
ENGL 292 - Topics in British Literature: Mary Shelley's Monster: Two Hundred Years of Frankenstein
ENGL 292 - Topics in British Literature: All About Eve
ENGL 254 - I Heart Jane: Austen's Fan Cultures and Afterlives
ENGL 232 - The Novel: Frantic and Sickly, Idle and Extravagant: The Gothic Novel from 1764 to 1979
WRIT 100 - Writing Seminar for First-Years: Monsters Among Us
WGSS 220 - Twenty-First-Century Feminism

Selected Publications

“Fenn, Ellenor née Frere (1744–1813),” Routledge Research Companion to Romantic Women Writers, ed. Ann Hawkins, Leigh Bonds, and Cathy Blackwell, Routledge, 2022, pp. 224-31.

“Boswell’s Dictionary and the Status of Scots Dialect in the Eighteenth Century,” Studies in English Literature 60:3 (Summer 2020): 485–506.

Review of Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English by Janet Sorensen. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31:3 (Spring 2019): 613–615.

“‘These Gentlemens Ill Treatment of our Mother Tongue’: Female Grammarians and the Promotion of the Vernacular.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 36:1 (Spring 2017): 17–43.

“‘He looked quite red’: Persuasion and Austen’s New Man of Feeling.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 29:1 (Fall 2016): 45–66.