Joss Marsh (Email)
Associate Professor
PhD: U. C. Santa Barbara, 1989
m.Phil: English Literature, 1789-1880, Oxford, 1982

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Victorian Literature & Culture; early and pre-cinema; Victorian visual culture; offensive literature

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PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England

*Inside the Film Archive: Practice, Theory, Canon*. Special issue of Stanford Humanities Review (7: 2, 1999).

Articles:
"Dickens and Film," in The Cambridge Companion to Dickens, ed. John Jordan (forthcoming, Cambridge UP, 2000).

"Spectacle," for A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, ed. Herbert F. Tucker, Blackwell (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999) 276-288.

"In a Glass Darkly: Photography, the Pre-Modern, and Victorian Horror," in Prehistories of the Future, eds. Elazar Barkan and Ron Bush, 1995 ( Stanford University Press) 159-71.

"Imagining Victorian London: An Entertainment and Itinerary (Chas. Dickens, Guide)," illustrated article in Stanford Humanities Review, 3: 1, Winter 1993, 67-97. Also presented in Web form by Stanford University and the Dickens Project.

"Dickensian Double Vision: Filming Little Dorrit," illustrated extended article in Dickens Studies Annual, 22, 1993, 239-282.

"Good Mrs. Brown's Connections: Sexuality and Story-telling in Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son," English Literary History, 58: 2, Summer 1991, 405-426.

Media Publications
Doorway to Dickens, consultant/interviewer, (EDUCATIONAL VIDEO, CO-PRODUCTION OF BBC EDUCATION and the Dickens Project, 1995).

Aspects of Jane Eyre , consultant/interviewer (EDUCATIONAL VIDEO, co-production of BBC Education and the Dickens Project, 1997).

Forging the World of Great Expectations , consultant/interviewer (BBC/BBC Education DOCUMENTARY, 1999).

David Copperfield: Dickens's Favorite Child , writer/interviewer/presenter (BBC/BBC EDUCATION, 2000).

POSITIONS
Co-Editor, Victorian Studies, 1999 -
Associate Director, The Dickens Project, 1998-2000
Director, Stanford Film Workshop, 1996-1998

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
IU Summer Fellowship, 2000
A.C.L.S. Fellowship, 1994-95
Stanford University Deans' fellowships, 1994-95
Stanford University Associated Students' Teaching Award, 1998