Professor Montwieler generally teaches classes in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century literature, and she is particularly interested in constructions of gender and sexuality.  Most of her research has focused on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women writers, but she is currently writing an essay on empathy and Dickens’s Bleak House.  Her long-term project addresses the role of sensibility in nineteenth-century women’s poetry.

ENG 205: Approaches to the Study of Literature

ENG 212: British Literature Since 1800

ENG 230: Women in Literature

ENG 335: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

ENG 336: British Romanticism

ENG 337: Victorian Literature     

ENG 373: The Female Tradition in Literature

ENG 511: Studies in the Novel

ENG 560: Topics in British Literature

•  “Teaching French Women Writers in a World Literature Survey.” Approaches to Teaching Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. Ed. Faith Beasley. New York: MLA, forthcoming.

• “Domestic Politics: Gender, Protest, and Barrett Browning’s Poems before Congress.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 24.2 (2005): 291-317.

• “Reading Disease: The Corrupting Performance of Edgeworth’s Belinda.” Women’s Writing 12.3 (2005): 347-368.

•  “Laughing at Love: Letitia Elizabeth Landon and the Embellishment of Eros.” Romanticism on the Net 29-30 (February-May 2003). www.ron.umontreal.ca

•  “Marketing Sensation: Lady Audley’s Secret and Consumer Culture.” Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context. Ed. Marlene Tromp, Pamela Gilbert, and Aeron Haynie. New York: SUNY Press, 2000, 43-61.