HANNAH H. MARKLEY

Flagler Hall 208

hmarkley@stetson.edu

Stetson University | DeLand, FL 32724

EMPLOYMENT

Stetson University | English Department

Assistant Professor August 2022-present

Bucknell University | English Department Literary Studies

Visiting Assistant Professor                                                                     August 2021-2022

Georgia Institute of Technology | School of Literature, Media, and Communication 

Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow                                                  August 2018- 2021

Emory University | Department of English

 Visiting Assistant Professor                                                                    August 2017- 2018 

EDUCATION

Emory University | English Literature  PhD., 2017

University of Sussex | English MA with Distinction, 2011

Kenyon College | English (Minor in Women’s Studies and African American Studies) BA with Honors, Magna Cum Laude, 2009

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Morbid Cravings: Appetite and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Accepted and under          contract at the Ohio State University Press. Forthcoming spring 2027. 

Peer-Reviewed

“Monstrous Disorders: The Dysmorphic Gothic in Frankenstein and The Substance.” FRAME:            Journal for Literary Studies. 38.2 (December 2025).

“Plague and the Politics of Sisterhood: Traces of Antigone in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man.” Genre:      Forms of Discourse and Culture. 59.1 (2026). 

“Disabling Appetites: Hunger and Debility in Wuthering Heights.” Studies in the Novel. 58.2 (2026).        

“An Appetite for Injection: Addiction, Gender, and Race in The Sign of Four (1890).” Literature and     Medicine. 42.4 (2024): 413-437.

“Gut Sympathy: Anthropomorphism and Disgust in Sidney Whiting’s Memoirs of a Stomach (1853).     Configurations.29.2 (2021).  

“Mother Palimpsest: Reproduction in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Suspiria de        Profundis.” Essays in Romanticism. 24.1 (2017), 69-82. 

“‘In and among us’: Specters of Friendship in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria.” European         Romantic Review. 27:5 (2016), 623-637.

“Derrida’s No(i)se.” Parallax. 20.1 (2014), 41-53. 

Book Chapter in Edited Collection

“Pharmacokinetics and Opium-Eating: Metabolites, Stomach Aches, and the Afterlife of De Quincey’s Addiction.” Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture: 1780-1900. Ed. Natalie Roxburgh and Jennifer Henke. Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. 

“Philately on the Telephone: Reading, Touching, Loving the Envois.” Going Postcard. Ed. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. Punctum Books, 2017.

Review Essay

“Review: Fuson Wang. The Small Pox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative.         Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Forthcoming   2025. 

“Untouchable Girls and Radiohead: Femininity in Celebricities’ Alt- Rock Theory.” Review: Anthony Curtis Adler. Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life. Fordham University Press: NY, 2016. syndicate.network February 1, 2017. Online.

Under Preparation

“Murder Fanciers: The Pleasures of Cruelty from Thomas De Quincey to Oscar Wilde.” Bad Art.     Ed. Ian Afflerbach and George Thomas. Under review with  University of Georgia Press. 

“No More Than a Breath: Bad Air and Imperial Disease in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.”         Medical Authority in Victorian Literature. Ed. Julia Ditter and Anne Korfmacher. Proposal    submitted to Palgrave MacMillan. 

Respirations: Breath and the Outbreak Narrative on the Brink of Modernity. In progress.