Joint PhD in Literary Studies / Theatre Studies in English

Graduate Faculty

University of Guelph
Wilfrid Laurier University

Christine Bold, MA (Edinburgh), PhD (University College, London).

Professor (2000); Co-Director of the School (1999-2002).

E-mail: cbold@uoguelph.ca

Research Interests

U. S. Studies (with particular interest in the West, the 1930s, public funding of the arts, and writing by women); theories and examples of popular culture; cultural studies.

Books

  • Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 to 1960. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987.

  • The WPA Guides: Mapping America. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999.

Selected recent articles

  • "Feminist Memorializing and Cultural Countermemory: The Case of Marianne's Park." Co-authored with Belinda Leach and Ric Knowles. Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society Special Issue on Gender and Cultural Memory (Fall 2002).

  • "Screening the Nation: Gender, Place and Power in The 39 Steps." The Haunted Wood: Essays in Cultural History in the 1930's and 40's. Ed. Christopher Brookeman. Todmorden, Lancs.: Arc Publications, 2000.

  • Section Editor and Introduction, "The Popular West," Updating the Literary West. Ed. Thomas Lyon et al. Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP, 1997.

  • "Mapping the Colour Line: The WPA Guide to North Carolina." "Writing" Nation and "Writing" Region in America. Ed. Theo D'Haen and Hans Bertens. European Contributions to American Studies. Amsterdam: VU UP, 1996.

  • "Malaeska's Revenge; Or, the Dime Novel Tradition in Popular Fiction." Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture. Ed. Richard Aquila. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996.