Margaret Flanders Darby

Associate Professor of Writing: Humanities (Part Time).
Department of Interdisciplinary Writing
Alumni 224
Colgate University
Hamilton, New York 13346
315-228-7727
mdarby@mail.colgate.edu

Education

1988 SUNY at Binghamton, PhD, English
1968 Stanford University, MA, English Education
1967 Smith College, AB cum laude, English

Dissertation

"Fault Lines in Dickens" (sexual politics in five Dickens novels)
Chair: Philip Rogers

Awards and Fellowships

2002-03 Fellow, Studies in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, 9 September 2002 to 16 May 2003. Project entitled "The Victorian Glasshouse"
2000 Summer Fellow, Studies in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, 12 June to 4 August, 2000. Project: "Women Under Glass: Ideologies of Femininity in 19th century Conservatory Gardening Literature"
1990 Colgate Research Council Major Grant: "Dickens's Women and their Narrators: A Feminist Reading"
1988 Dissertation awarded one of three "Distinguished Dissertation" prizes, at the May commencement exercises

Teaching Specialties

Composition and Rhetoric; Victorian Studies; Women's Studies, especially Language and Gender

Research Interests

Women characters in Dickens's novels, cultural metaphors of nineteenth-century ideologies of femininity, garden history, feminist pedagogy in the composition classroom

Recent Publications

"Joseph Paxton's Water Lily," Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art: 1550-1850. Ed. Michel Conan. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002. 255-283
"Dickens and Women's Stories: 1845-1848 (Part Two)," Dickens Quarterly 17 (September, 2000): 127-38
"Dickens and Women's Stories: 1845-1848 (Part One)," Dickens Quarterly 17 (June, 2000): 67-76
"Listening to Estella." Dickens Quarterly 16 (December, 1999): 215-229
"The Conservatory in St. John's Wood." Seductive Surfaces: The Art of Tissot. Ed. Katharine Lochnan. London: Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and Yale UP, 1999. 161-184

Recent Conferences

2001 The Dickens Project, "Imagining Glasshouses," UC Santa Cruz, CA, 31 July 2001
2000 Northeast Victorian Studies Association, "On the Edge of Breakdown: The Late Victorian Glasshouse," New York, NY, 14 April, 2000
1999 4th Annual International Dickens Symposium, "When Heroism Fails," Boston, MA, 6 November, 1999
Landscape Architecture Symposium, "Joseph Paxton's Water Lily," Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, 15 May, 1999
Conference on College Composition and Communication, "Going Co-ed: Authority and Silence in the Feminist Comp Class," Atlanta, GA, 25 March, 1999
1998 3rd Annual International Dickens Symposium, "Listening to Dickens's Women Characters," Wilkes-Barre, PA, 3 October, 1998
1997 CCCC, "Outsiders Teaching Writing: Disciplinary Approaches to WAC," Phoenix, AZ, 12 March 1997
1996 1st International Dickens Symposium, "Dickens and Women's Stories: 1845-1850," Worcester, MA, 28 September 1996
Northeast Modern Language Association, "The Conservatory in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth," Montreal, Canada, 19 April 1996
CCCC, "Darwin Through Three Lenses: A New WAC Strategy," Milwaukee, WI, 28 March 1996