Dr. Jessica Richard
Associate Professor of English
Contact
Office: C214 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-3548
Email: richarja@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD Princeton
MA Princeton
BA Goucher College
Areas of Interest
- 18th Century British fiction
- Gambling in 18th Century Britain
- British exploration narratives
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 111 Gambling in Western Culture
ENG 111 Writing About Austen on Film
ENG 160 Introduction to British Literature
ENG 165 Studies in British Literature
ENG 300 Jane Austen's Eighteenth Century Contexts
ENG 301 Jane Austen: Critical Contexts
ENG 335 Eighteenth Century British Fiction
ENG 733 Eighteenth-Century British Fiction: The Oriental Tale
ENG 733 Eighteenth-Century British Fiction: The Body, The Letter, The Novel
Selected Publications
The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel. Palgrave. 2011.
Editor, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson. Broadview Editions, 2008.
“‘Games of Chance’: Belinda, Education, and Empire.” An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts. Ed. H. Kaufman and C. Fauske. University of Delaware Press, 2004. 192-211.
"'I am equally weary of confinement': Women Writers and Rasselas from Dinarbas to Jane Eyre." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 22.2(2003):335-356.
"'A Paradise of My Own Creation': Frankenstein and the Improbable Romance of the North Pole." Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 25.4(2003):295-314.
Frances Burney's "Love and Fashion": Introduction and Electronic Text. British Women Playwrights Around 1800. April 15, 2000.