Chris Roulston
Professor
MA, PhD
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and French Studies
Office: Lawson Hall 3256
Phone:519-661-2111
croulsto@uwo.ca
Academic Specialization
Anne Lister; marriage literature; boarding school literature; eighteenth-century women’s literature; history of sexuality; queer theory; feminist theory; poststructuralism
Current Research
Queer Nostalgia, Colonialism, and the Girls' Boarding School Narrative, 1933-2023. Routledge University Press. Forthcoming 2026.
The Cambridge Companion to Anne Lister. Chris Roulston and Caroline Gonda (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026.
Publications
Monographs and Edited Collections
Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to Gentleman Jack. Chris Roulston and Caroline Gonda (eds). Cambridge University Press, 2023. 282 pp.
Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2010. 240 pp.
Virtue, Gender and the Authentic Self in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Rousseau, and Laclos. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. 211 pp.
Chapters in Edited Collections
“When ‘Fred’ Meets ‘Frank’: Female Masculinity, Classical Coding and Queer Temporalities in the Anne Lister Diaries.” Quintus Immisch and Saskia Schomber. Untimely Encounters: Queer Temporalities and the Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Brill Press, forthcoming 2025.
"From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack: Queer Temporality, Fandom and the Gains and Losses of Adaptation". Chris Roulston and Caroline Gonda (eds). Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to Gentleman Jack. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 240-261.
"Graffigny, Zilia, et la question du mariage au XVIIIe siècle". Charlotte Simonin (ed). Françoise de Graffigny (1695-1758), femme de lettres des Lumières. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020. 271-288.
"Representations of Marriage. A Cultural History of Marriage: Volume 4 The Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800)". Edward J. Behrend-Martinez (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020. 115-132.
Articles in Refereed Journals
"From Text to Screen: Gentleman Jack Then and Now". Journal of Lesbian Studies. Online publication. 7 June 2022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/10894160.2022.2085235?needAccess=true
"Interpreting the Thin Archive: Anne Lister, Eliza Raine and Telling School Tales". Eighteenth-Century Studies 55.2 (2022): 191-213.
"Sexuality in Translation: Anne Lister and the Ancients". Journal of the History of Sexuality (JHS) 30.1 (January 2021): 112-135.
"Queer Parenting and the Challenge to Queer Theory". Special Issue of Studies in Canadian Literature: Queer Bodies/Corps Queer (SCL) 46.1 (2021): 1-28.
"Queer Reflections on Childhood, Innocence and the Nation in Rosemary Manning's Boarding School Novel, The Chinese Garden (1962)". Twentieth-Century Literature 65.4 (December 2019): 1-26.
Forthcoming Chapters and Articles
Entry on Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Connections (1784) Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, in press.
Book Reviews
Jill Liddington. As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023. Women’s History Review 34.3 (2025): 523-524.
Mary Zaborskis. Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability. New York: New York University Press, 2023. Children’s Literature 53 (Spring 2025): forthcoming.
Tracy L. Rutler. Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature. Voltaire Foundation: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Eighteenth-Century Fiction (ECF) 35.3 (2023): 423-425.
