Anne Wallace

Department of English

Anne Wallace

Email: anne_wallace@uncg.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin-1989
M.A. University of Kansas-1984
B.A. University of Kansas-1977

Anne D. Wallace, who retired in July 2023, served as Head of the English Department from her hire at UNC Greensboro in 2005 until 2014, and as Chair of the Faculty Senate 2015-17. She is author of Walking, Literature, and English Culture (Oxford 1993) and co-editor of The Walker’s Literary Companion and The Quotable Walker (Breakaway 2000). Wallace’s second monograph, Sisters and the English Household: Domesticity and Women’s Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (Anthem 2018), represents a detour, though not a departure, from the mainstream of her scholarly work at the literary intersections of mobility, aesthetics, labor, and domesticity. Her articles on John Clare, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Dorothy and William Wordsworth include the lead article in the 50th Anniversary issue of The Wordsworth Circle (Winter 2019), “Interfusing Living and Nonliving in Charlotte Smith’s ‘Beachy Head.’”

 

Born in Kansas, and educated in public schools and universities in Kansas and Texas, Wallace taught for a year at Washburn University of Topeka before joining the English Department at the University of Southern Mississippi in 1990. During her 15 years at USM, Wallace was awarded a 1998 Humanities Teacher Award from the Mississippi Humanities Council and a 2003 University Excellence in Teaching Award.

Selected Publications

  • “’Paths to freedom and to childhood dear’: Walking and Identity in a Time of ‘Stopt’ Paths.” A New Poetics of Space. Ed. Vicky Angelaki and Lucy Jeffery. Spec. Issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 26.3 (Autumn 2022): 210-20. Published online 26 August 2022. DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2022.2114522
  • “Interfusing Living and Non-Living in Charlotte Smith’s ‘Beachy Head.’” Romantic
    Theories of Life: Between Living and Non-Living. Ed. Noah Heringman and
    Richard Sha. Spec. Issue of The Wordsworth Circle 50.1 (Winter 2019): 1-19.
  • Sisters and the English Household: Domesticity and Women’s Autonomy in
    Nineteenth-Century English Literature. Anthem Press, 2018.
  • “Family and Friendship,” William Wordsworth In Context, ed. Andrew Bennett.
    Cambridge UP, 2015. Paperback 2017. 224-31.
  • “The Deceased Wife’s Sister Controversy”, 1835-1907. BRANCH: Britain,
    Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Extension of Romanticism
    and Victorianism on the Net. Web. January 2012.
  • “Picturesque Fossils, Sublime Geology? The Crisis of Authority in Charlotte
    Smith’s Beachy Head.” European Romantic Review 13 (2002): 77-93.
  • “Nor in Fading Silks Compose’: Sewing, Walking and Poetic Labor in  Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh.” ELH 64 (1997): 223-256.
  • Walking, Literature, and English Culture: The Origins and Uses of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford Clarendon 1993. Paperback 1994.

Awards and Honors

  • University Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Southern Mississippi, 2003.
  • Humanities Teacher Award, Mississippi Humanities Council, 1998.
  • Keats-Shelley Association Prize, for “Farming on Foot,” 1993.

Anne Wallace – CV

Bookshelf

The Quotable Walker

Edited Collection by Anne Wallace

The Walker’s Literary Companion

Edited Collection by Anne Wallace

Walking, Literature, and English Culture: The Origins and Uses of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century

Book by Anne Wallace

Sisters and the English Household: Domesticity and Women’s Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century English Literature

Book by Anne Wallace