Department of Women's Studies & Feminist Research
Chris Roulston
MA , PhD
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Professor Research I've been teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of sexuality, intersectionality, and on current trends in queer theory. My background is originally in Comparative Literature, so literature continues to play an important role in how I think about theory in terms of my teaching. I also see teaching and research as integral to each other and as mutually enhancing. My current research looks at how legal discourse in the nineteenth century dealt with the notion of deviant female sexuality when, in fact, women were not technically subject to 'sodomy' laws. |
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Recent Publications
- Roulston, Chris. "Female Education and Sex Education in Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century: Sex Education in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Shane Agin. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011:09. 191-205.
- Roulston, Chris. Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2010. 240 pp.
is now available at: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754668398
Forthcoming Publications
- Roulston, Chris. " 'A Thing Perhaps Impossible': The 1811 Woods/Pirie Trial and Its Legacies." In Search of the Normal: Developments in the Histories of Sexualities 1400-1900. Eds. Caroline Gonda and Chris Mounsey, University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2012.
- Roulston, Chris. "The Revolting Anne Lister: the U.K.'s First Modern Lesbian." Revolting Bodies: Desiring Lesbians: Special Double Issue of The Journal of Lesbian Studies. Ed. Olu Jenzen, forthcoming 2012.
- Roulston, Chris. "Marriage, Sexuality and the Meaning of the Wedding Night in Eighteenth-Century France," Heteronormativity in the Eighteenth Century. Eds Ana Boe and Abby Coykendall, Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, forthcoming 2012.
- "Lesbianism on Trial: An Enquiry into Cases of Deviant Female Sexuality from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries." SSHRC-funded three-year research project, 2009-2012.
Selected Publications
- "Between Two Worlds: The Sea and the Imaginary in the Eighteenth Century." Bridges Over Water: Social Openness and Enclosure. Eds. Sanda Badescu and Carlo Lavoie. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 43-56.
- "Word and Image in the Representation of Marriage in the Eighteenth Century." Word and Image in the Eighteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Eds. Christina Ionescu and Renata Schellenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 24-43.
- "Having it Both Ways? The Eighteenth-Century Ménage-à-Trois." Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800. Eds. Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007. 274-298.
- Virtue, Gender and the Authentic Self in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Rousseau, and Laclos. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. 211pp.
Articles in Refereed Journals
- "Space and the Representation of Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Advice Literature." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 49.1 (Spring 2008): 25-41.
- "Framing Sensibility: The Female Couple in Art and Narrative." Eds. Caroline Gonda and Chris Mounsey. Special Issue for Studies in English Literature: Friendship and Same-Sex Love (SEL), 46.3 (Summer 2006): 641-655.
- "Gendering the Self in Eighteenth-Century Women's Letters." Correspondence and Epistolary Fiction. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC). Oxford: Voltaire foundation, 2002:06. 93-103.
Book Reviews
- Mary Trouille, Wife-Abuse in Eighteeenth-Century France. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009:1. 377 pages. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, forthcoming.
- Jonathan Mallinson, ed. Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres: Ecriture et réception. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2004:12. 419 pages. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 18.4 (Summer 2006): 541-545.
Recent or upcoming conference presentations/talks:
- "Decoding Anne Lister," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), San Antonio, Texas, 22-25 March 2012.
- "La théorie Queer: de ses origines aux débats actuels,"Le Centre Transdisciplinaire d'épistémologie de la littérature et des arts vivants: Axe III Littérature et communauté, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, 30 mai 2012.
- "Queer Eighteenth-Century Studies: Where Are We Now?," Queer People VI, Christ's College, Cambridge University, UK, 4-7 July 2012.