Education
Ph.D., American Studies, Purdue University, 1999
About
Anne Boyd Rioux has been teaching at 91直播 since the Fall of 1999. She is a member of the Women's and Gender Studies faculty and teaches courses in American literature, with an emphasis on the 19th century, cultural studies, and gender. She is a two-time National Endowment of Humanities Fellow, once for Public Scholarship.
Selected Publications
(W. W. Norton, 2016). Named one of the ten best books of 2016 by the . Reviewed on the cover of the ; "Editor's Choice," ; Editor's Pick,; Starred Reviews in Booklist and Library Journal; A "Hot Book" at ; A Book Making News at ; and one of the ten books to read in February 2016. Also reviewed in the, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.
Editor, , by Constance Fenimore Woolson (W. W. Norton, 2016).
Lit Hub, May 12, 2016.
Salon, Mar. 20, 2016.
The Toast, Feb. 18, 2016.
"Tourism, Imperialism, and Hybridity in the Reconstruction South: Woolson's Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches." Southern Literary Journal 43.2 (2011): 12-32 (in Project Muse). Reprint in , University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
, ed. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
"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.
. 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.'" Ed. Victoria Brehm. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 191-206.
: Women Writers, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Formation of the American Canon." American Studies 39. 3 (Fall 1998): 5-36.
Book Selections
Great Reads from and about the 19th Century
Constance Fenimore Woolson, (1879)
Rebecca Harding Davis, (1862)
Elizabeth Stoddard, (1865)
Eve LaPlante, (2012)
Michael Gorra, (2012)
Colm Toibin, (2005)--novel about Henry James and Woolson
Louisa May Alcott, (1868)--Not just for girls, and not just for kids!
Fun Reads
Erin Morgenstern,
Deborah Harkness,
Lauren Groff, The Monsters of Templeton
Research Interests
Dr. Rioux is currently completing The Story of Little Women, a "biography" of the classic novel, which was published by W. W. Norton in 2018 for the 150th anniversary of the novel's original publication in 1868. You can learn more about her research at , which also includes links to her many essays and reviews written for a general audience.