Lori Campbell
Lecturer | Advisor, English Department Student Advising Center
Lori Campbell received M.A. and Doctorate degrees in English Literature at Duquesne University and her B.A. in English at University of Pittsburgh.
Her interests are in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature and Cultural Studies, particularly Literary Fantasy, Childhood Studies, Mythology/Folklore Studies, Women's Studies, Romantic Poetry, and Victorian Fiction.
Research and Publications:
Lori Campbell is the author of "Portals of Power: Magical Agency in Literary Fantasy from the Romantic to the Contemporary" scheduled for publication in 2009 by McFarland and Company. This project expands and repositions the portal concept to identify the ways in which fantasists use magical nexus points and movement between worlds to respond to contemporary, real-world power dynamics, especially regarding women and children.
Select Publications:
"Thomas Hardy, Modern Folklorist, Folk Modernist: The Creative/Destructive Male Gaze and the Spectral Females of Hardy's Wessex," in Origins of English Literary Modernism: 1890-1914; "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Child Reader: Inheritance and Resistance in The Lord of the Rings and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter" in How We Became Middle-earth: A Collection of Essays on The Lord of the Rings, 2007; and the Introduction to a new Barnes &Noble 2008 edition of The Complete Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear.
Honors and Awards:
include nominations for the 2008 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award and the Tina and David Bellet Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. In 2007, she received the CGS Student Choice Award for Teaching Excellence and a CIDDE Fellowship to the Faculty Diversity Seminar sponsored by the Provost. In 2006, she received Awards of Excellence in Teaching from the Sisters of Theta Phi Alpha and from the Sisters of Chi Omega.
Teaching:
In Literature: Topics in Fantasy and The Gothic, Myth and Folktale, and Children's Literature.
Advanced Composition Fantasy Studies Fellowship:
In 2005, Lori Campbell started this social and intellectual discussion group for Pitt undergraduates dedicated to the study and appreaciation of the Fantastic. The group meets about once per month to discuss books and films chosen by its members. For more information, contact Dr. Campbell at Camenglish@cs.com