Faculty: Christine Sutphin

Christine Sutphin received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1987 and joined the faculty at Central in 1988. One of her major teaching and research interests is nineteenth-century British literature, including traditionally canonical writers, such as the Brontes, Dickens and Browning, to neglected or recently rediscovered authors, such as Craik and Webster. She finds the British novel from its beginnings to the present especially fascinating and is intrigued by Victorian art, illustration, interior design, and popular culture. Dr. Sutphin has a wide-ranging interest in women writers and feminist/gender theory, including issues of diversity in U.S. womens literature. She has served on the Womens Studies Advisory Committee since 1989 and was director of the program from 1991-94. Her publications include journal articles on George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Augusta Webster, and Victorian poetry for children illustrated by Arthur Boyd Houghton. In 2000 she published Portraits and Other Poems, a contextual edition of Augusta Websters poetry, and she is working on a forthcoming scholarly edition of Frances Trollopes early anti-slavery novel, The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw (1836).