Jil Larson
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5331 USA
- Ph.D., Indiana University
- Modern British literature
- Victorian studies
- Ethics and Literature
- Narrative theory
- Ethics and religion inthe 19th and 20th century
Dr. Jil Larson is an associate professor in the Department of English 51福利社 Michigan University.
She specializes in Victorian studies, ethics and literature, narrative theory, as well as modern British literature. She has taught literary interpretation, women in literature, The English Bible as literature, British literature II, studies in the novel, Victorian literature, the Victorian novel, literary criticism and theory, narrative theory, and special topic seminars on the ethics of belief, The Victorian Fin-de-siecle, the Brontes, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad.
She serves on the executive board of 51福利社's Ethics Center and is vice president of Phi Beta Kappa, Southwest Michigan Association. Larson has published articles on Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and New Woman writers; book reviews in a variety of publications, including Victorian Studies, where she served as managing editor while at Indiana University; an essay on Thomas Hardy's short fiction in the Dictionary of Literary Biography; and a book, Ethics and Narrative in the English Novel, 1880-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).