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Gail Houston
Professor
Director of Women's Studies

Office: HUM 353
Hours: T 1300-1500; R 1230-1300
Contact Joyce Bell at 277-3854 or by email
to set up an appointment outside office hours.
Phone: 277-9119
E-Mail: ghouston@unm.edu

Gail Turley Houston received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1990, specializing in Victorian Literature. She has written three books Consuming Fictions: Gender, Class, and Hunger in Dickens's Fiction (SIUP: 1994), Royalties: the Queen and Victorian Writers (University Press of Virginia: 1999), and From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005) and numerous articles on Victorian topics. Her teaching interests include the Brontes, Dickens, Victorian Fiction, 19th century women writers, and feminist and cultural studies approaches to literature.