Renee A Fox
· Associate Professor, Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century StudiesVerifiedUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · History of Literature
Active 1952–2023
About
Renee A Fox is an Associate Professor and the Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies in the Division of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz. Her academic expertise encompasses 19th-century British literature and culture, Irish literature and culture from the 19th century to the present, the gothic, monsters, popular culture, adaptations and adaptation theory, and fantasy. Her research examines how British and Irish writers reimagine histories of the 19th century, focusing on the political, aesthetic, and gendered forces that transform the past into familiar and useful history. Her monograph, The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature, published by The Ohio State University Press in 2023, explores how monster stories and poems by authors such as Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, and Bram Stoker reflect changing ideas about history across the 19th century. Fox is also a co-editor of several scholarly volumes, including The Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies and Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland, and has contributed essays to numerous academic journals. Her work has been recognized with awards such as the Sonya Rudikoff Award for best first book in Victorian Studies and grants from various institutions, reflecting her significant contributions to Victorian and Irish literary studies.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- History
- Literature
- Aesthetics
- Art
- World Wide Web
- Business
- Risk analysis (engineering)
- Process management
- Electrical engineering
- Philosophy
- Engineering
- Linguistics
Selected publications
Gothic Realism, or Reading is Believing in <i>Dracula</i>
Irish University Review · 2023 · 1 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Literature
- Aesthetics
- History
This essay explores the ways Bram Stoker brings eighteenth-century affective gothic reading practices to bear on Victorian fiction’s investments in realism. By investigating modes of affective reading in Dracula, the essay develops a definition of ‘gothic realism’ to describe an affective experience of the real that gothic fiction offers in place of verisimilitude and representations of everyday life. Beginning by tracing the explicit and implicit histories of this term through both literary criticism and the gothic tradition, the essay turns to Dracula to discover an alternative definition of ‘gothic realism’ that bridges a longstanding divide between the colonial fractures intrinsic to nineteenth-century Irish literature and the claims to coherent representational reality usually aligned with the Victorian novel. ‘Gothic realism’ becomes a term, and a reading practice, for newly understanding how the gothic entwines with realism across both British and Irish nineteenth-century fiction, not as its critical antithesis, or as its hidden secret, but as an affective mode through which we can see nineteenth-century Irish novels representing the realities of the world around them.
The Ohio State University Press eBooks · 2023-01-01
book1st authorCorrespondingIntroduction: Necromantic Victorians -- How Frankenstein got history -- Dickensian zombies in Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend -- Robert Browning's necropoetics -- W.B. Yeats and the necromantic museum -- Bram Stoker's Irish mummy gothic -- Epilogue: The undead reader, or the perils of resuscitative reading.
The Sociology of Modern Medical Research
2023-10-30
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingProceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 2020
- Computer Science
- Computer Science
- Risk analysis (engineering)
In this session, we continue our discussion of push and pull manual materials handling tasks, especially issues related to the use of manual carts. We will describe some current issues in the evaluation of cart-handling tasks from aspects of both risk and performance, describe some practices currently employed to address these issues and will conclude with some thoughts about a program of research to enhance our understanding of how these tasks can be performed safely and efficiently.
Epilogue: Forty-Five Years as a Participant Observer of Patient-Oriented Clinical Research
2020-02-24
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingRoutledge eBooks · 2020 · 4 citations
1st authorCorresponding- History
"This is a brilliant work of lasting value to both sociology and anthropology by a person combining the talent of keen observer with the highest level of theoretical sophistication. . . a major contribution to our understanding of the nature and structure of a significant social situation."--David M. Schneider, The University of Chicago. Experiment Perilous covers a three-year period In the lives of the patients and physicians in a small and intense hospital community. It represents a pioneering, participant-observation-based study of a hospital ward as a social system. In a new epilogue. Fox provides a historical and sociological account of phenomena relevant to clinical investigations that she has observed in her forty-five years as a sociologist of medicine.
The Physicians of the Metabolic Group: Some of Their Problems and Stresses
2020-02-24
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingGeneral Significance of “Experiment Perilous”
2020-02-24
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingIntroduction to the Metabolic Research Group and Ward F-Second
2020-02-24
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding2020-12-02
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThis chapter analyzes how scholars and fiction writers since 2008 have looked to nineteenth-century Irish fiction to question the critical frameworks of Irish Studies, to imagine new Irish literary histories, and to expose the assumptions and habits with which we read Irish novels. It argues that the last decade of Irish literary studies has pushed back against longstanding literary histories that see twentieth-century Irish modernism as the apotheosis of Irish literary production, and it makes a case for shifting our critical reading practices in order to discover the alternative stories of Irish fiction that we have been trained to overlook. The chapter’s first half offers an overview of recent literary studies scholarship both within and adjacent to Irish Studies that pushes back against narratives of nineteenth-century Irish fictional failure by revealing the cultural and imperial politics that inhere in critically valuing some forms over other forms. Its second half explores contemporary novels by Tana French, Emma Donoghue, and Joseph O’Connor (The Likeness, The Wonder, and Shadowplay) that transform nineteenth-century Irish history and literature from static objects of knowledge into open-ended questions about reading practices, literary desires, and the futures of Irish fiction. Although the chapter does not offer its own readings of nineteenth-century Irish novels, it reveals the politics so often imbricated in such readings and creates space for new, more expansive reading practices that free Irish fiction, and free us, from the stories that limit this fiction’s power to help us see the world differently.
Frequent coauthors
- 65 shared
Carl E. Taylor
- 65 shared
Yasuo Otsuka
Yokohama City University
- 65 shared
Charles Leslie
- 65 shared
Fred Dunn
University of California, San Francisco
- 65 shared
K. N. Udupa
Banaras Hindu University
- 62 shared
Judith P. Swazey
- 50 shared
Arthur Kleinman
- 49 shared
Eliot Freidson
Awards & honors
- Sonya Rudikoff Award for best first book in Victorian Studie…
- Honorable Mention, Donald Murphy Prize for best first book i…
- Honorable Mention, Best First Book (North American Victorian…
- Longlisted, Alan Lloyd Smith Prize for best book in Gothic S…
- UCSC Center for Monster Studies, 2023
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