Dorri Beam
Associate Professor
English
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
415 Hall of Languages
315.443.8112
Courses Recently Taught
ETS 192: I do/I don't: Marriage and American Literature
ETS 350: Captivity in America
ETS 360: What Was Sex? Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the History of Sexuality
ETS 420: Nineteenth-Century American Literature Redux
ENG 630: Graduate Pro-Seminar: Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ENG 730: Graduate Seminar: What Was Sex? Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the History of Sexuality
Research and Teaching Interests
Nineteenth-century American literature, especially the history of gender, race, and sexuality
Books
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Publications
“Transcendental Erotics, Same-Sex Desire, and Ethel’s Love-Life” [expanded version]. Exaltadas: Genealogies of Women and Transcendentalism, ed. Jana Argersinger and Phyllis Cole. The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
“Henry James, Constance Woolson, and the Figure in the Carpet.” American Literature’s Aesthetic Dimensions. Ed. Christopher Looby and Cindy Weinstein. Columbia University Press, 2012.
“Fuller, Feminism, Pantheism.” Margaret Fuller and Her Circles, ed. Briggs Bailey, Kate Viens, and Conrad Wright. Massachusetts Historical Society and University of New England Press, 2012.
“Transcendental Erotics, Same-Sex Desire, and Ethel’s Love-Life” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 57.1-2 (2011) 51-78.
Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
“The Flower of Black Female Sexuality in Pauline Hopkins’s Winona.” Recovering the Black Female Body. ed. Vanessa Dickerson and Michael Bennett. Rutgers University Press, 2001. 71-96.