Melanie Holm

Professor

Office: 506-CC Leonard
Email: Melanie.Holm@iup.edu
Personal Website

Education

• PhD in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
• BS Mathematics, Literature, MIT

Research and Teaching Interests

• British and European Literature of the Early Modern Period and Long Eighteenth Century
• Satire, Skepticism, Women Writers, Intellectual History, Digital Pedagogy, Humanist Learning Theory

Profile

Melanie Holm is currently working on a book-length study of Margaret Cavendish, titled “Leaving Lucretia: Margaret Cavendish and the Singular Heroine.”

Publications

Edited Collections

• 2022 Grimm Realities: Identity and Justice in the Television Series, co-edited with Daniel Farr. McFarland.
• 2018 Mocking Bird Technologies: Essays on the Comparative and Global Poetics of Bird Mimicry, co-edited with Chris GoGwilt. Fordham University Press.

Journal Articles

• 2023 “Wit. An Upper-Level English Course,” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, 37.2.
• 2020 “A Digression on Digressive Assignments,” Studies in the Novel: Long 18th Century Teaching Tools, ed. Joel Sodano and Michael Brown.
• 2020 “Playing Poetry: Entering Swift’s Dressing Room Online,” Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830, 10.1.
• 2017 “Authorial Sovereignty: Pleasure and Paratext in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing Worlds,” Restoration 41.1.
• 2017 “Arabella’s Valentines and Literary Connections [dot] com: Playing with Eighteenth-Century Gender Online,” Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830, 7.1.
• 2014 “Laughter, Skepticism, and the Pleasures of Being Misunderstood in Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 55.
• 2010 “‘O Vanity!’ Fielding’s Other Antisocial Affectation,” Philological Quarterly 89.
  —Reprinted in Literary Criticism from 1400-1800. Ed. Laurence J. Trudeau. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016. Online.

Book Chapters

• 2022 “All about Eve: Juliette and the Woman Problem,” in Grimm Realities: Fairytales, Folklore, and Monsters Reimagined, co-edited with Daniel Farr. North Carolina: McFarland.
• 2022 “The Wesen Who Came to Dinner,” in Grimm Realities: Essays on Fairy Tales, Identity, Justice, and Media in the Series, co-edited with Daniel Farr. North Carolina: McFarland.
• 2022 “Introduction,” in Grimm Realities: Essays on Fairy Tales, Identity, Justice, and Media in the Series, co-edited with Daniel Farr. North Carolina: McFarland.
• 2022 “Jane-as-Fanny: Patricia Rozema’s Woman Writer in Mansfield Park” in Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women, ed. Cynthia Cravens. Lexington: Kentucky UP
• 2018 “O Friends, There Are No Friends: The Aesthetics of Avian Sympathy in Defoe and Sterne” in Mocking Bird Technologies: Essays on the Comparative and Global Poetics of Bird Mimicry, ed. Christopher GoGwilt and Melanie Holm. New York: Fordham University Press.
• 2018 “Introduction,” co-author Christopher GoGwilt, in Mocking Bird Technologies: Essays on the Comparative and Global Poetics of Bird Mimicry, ed. Christopher GoGwilt and Melanie Holm. York: Fordham University Press.