Anne Stiles

Biography

Anne Stiles received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2006. She specializes in late-Victorian and Edwardian literature and history of science. During the 2006-2007 academic year, she will be a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, relocating to Pullman in fall 2007.

Research Interests

Stiles is presently at work on a book entitled Reading the Neurological Romance: Popular Fiction and Brain Science, 1865-1905. In this project, she explores rhetorical and philosophical connections between late-nineteenth-century neurology and novels by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and H.G. Wells.

Teaching Interests

Stiles has taught courses on nineteenth-century British literature, literature and science, and animals in world literature.  

Publications

Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920, edited and introduced by Anne Stiles. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming 2008).

“Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde and the Double Brain,” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 46.4 (forthcoming, November 2006).

“Cerebral Automatism, the Brain, and the Soul in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 15.2 (June 2006): 131-152.

Links

Home Page:
www.annestiles.com

Curriculum Vitae:
http://www.annestiles.com/resume.htm