Piya Pal Lapinski, Associate Professor

piyapl@bgnet.bgsu.edu

201 University Hall
419-372-2576

Degrees and Institutions:

BA, Presidency College(University of Calcutta), India
MA/PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Courses Regularly Taught:

Eng 265: British Literature Survey 1700-1945, Eng 417: Topics in
Romanticism, Eng 416: Topics in the Victorian Novel, Eng 423, Women’s
Studies in Literature

Area:

19th century and fin-de-siecle British fiction and culture, colonial
discourse and postcolonial theory, theorizing the female body

Research Interests:

The Victorian Novel, the culture of libertinism in Britain and France,
opera studies and critical theory, literature and medicine

Recent Publications:

“Chemical Seductions: Exoticism and the Female Poisoner in Wilkie
Collins’ Armadale and The Legacy of Cain” in Reality’s Dark Light:
The Sensational Wilkie Collins ed. Don Cox and Maria Bachman, University of Tennessee Press, 2003.

“Infection as Resistance: Medical Discourse: Indian Courtesans and
Flawed Memsahibs in Flora Steel’s Colonial Fiction,” in ARIEL: A Review
of English Literature. (July 1999)

“Tropical Ovaries: Gynecological Degeneration and Lady Arabella’s
Female Difficulties in Bram Stoker’s The Lair of the White Worm,” in
Women’s Experience of Modernity: New Voices, New Views ed. Ann Ardis
and Leslie Lewis, Johns Hopkins, 2002.