Julie Donovan
Julie Donovan
Associate Professor of Writing in the Women’s Leadership Program; Affiliated Faculty, Global Women’s Institute
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Julie Donovan, who has a joint appointment with University Writing and the Women’s Leadership Program, specializes in women’s writing of the nineteenth century with a focus on Ireland under colonial rule. Her first book, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) and the Politics of Style, was published in 2009. Since then she has published articles in peer-reviewed periodicals and chapters in book collections. Formerly a lawyer in the United Kingdom for about ten years, she brings skills learned in that job to her current profession of teaching.
Book
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and the Politics of Style. Academica Press, 2009.
Book Chapters
“The ‘Wittiest Woman’: Catherine Gore as Albany Poyntz in Bentley’s Miscellany.” Forthcoming in Humor, Literature, and Culture, edited by Mou-Lan Wong. Routledge, 2024.
“Rebel and Reactionary: The Case of Millicent Garrett Fawcett.” Forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Rebels, Routledge, 2025.
“Sydney Owenson.” The Routledge Research Companion to Romantic Women Writers, edited by Ann Hawkins and Catherine Blackwell. Routledge, 2022.
“‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’: Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge.” The Theological Dickens, edited by Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier, Routledge, 2022, pp. 91-109.
‘“Grossly Material’: Catholic Things and the Jesuit Order in Villette. Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World, edited by Justine Pizzo and Eleanor Houghton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 97-122.
“Challenging Rousseau, Challenging Conquest: Wales in Maria Edgeworth’s
Angelina; or L’Amie Inconnue and Helen.” Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives, edited by Monika Coghen and Anna Paluchowska-Messing, Jagiellonian UP, 2020, pp. 225-236.
‘“So Irish, so modish, so mixtish, so wild’: Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) and The Makings of A Life.” A Hall of Mirrors: Biographical Misrepresentations of Women Writers, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 75-92.
“The Poetry and Verse Drama of Branwell Brontë.” A Companion to the Brontës, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler & Deborah Denenholz Morse, Blackwell, 2016, pp. 213-228.
“Charlotte Brontë’s Renderings of Time.” Time, Space, and Place in Charlotte Brontë, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler, Ashgate Press, 2016, pp. 13-29.
“Charlotte Nooth." In Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, edited by Stephen Behrendt. Alexander Street Press, 2008.
"Catherine Rebecca Gray, Lady Manners." Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, edited by Stephen Behrendt, Alexander Street Press, 2008.
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Eliza Lynn Linton & The Irish Question.” Victorians Journal, Winter 2022.
“Defending Ireland or Attacking Woman? The Irish Riposte to Harriet Martineau.” Nineteenth-Century Prose, vol. 47.2, Winter 2020, pp. 117-142.
“Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South.” The Palgrave Guide to Victorian Women’s Writing. Palgrave, 2020.
“The Encroachment on Highbury: Ireland in Jane Austen’s Emma.” New Hibernia Review, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter 2019, pp. 13-29.
“Memoir as Literature and History.” I Am Malala: A Resource Guide for Educators, Little Brown and Company and The George Washington University, 2015, pp. 3-9, https://malala.gwu.edu/sites/
“Ireland in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette.” Irish University Review, 44.2, Autumn 2014, pp. 213-233.
"Text, and Textile in Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl." Éire-Ireland, vol. 43, Fall/Winter, 2008, pp. 31-57.
"Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) and Walter Scott's Worn-Out Inexpressibles." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 3.2. Summer, 2007.
"'Abus'd, but Purchased in English': Sydney Owenson (1783?-1859)." The Female Spectator, vol. 10. No. 2, pp. 7-8.
"Reasons to Remember Sydney Owenson." Literature Compass 2, 2005, pp. 1-6.
LLB, Hons (Law degree), University of London, United Kingdom
Ph.D., George Washington University