University of Glamorgan

Dr Diana Wallace

Reader in English
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Tel +44 (0)1443 482809
Room: FH105

Qualifications

BA (Hons) (Lancaster)
MA (Lancaster)
PhD (Loughborough)

About

My teaching is in the areas of women’s writing (nineteenth and twentieth century), the Gothic, and historical fiction

Duties & Responsibilities

Head of the Division of English

Research

My main research interests are in women’s writing (particularly the inter-war period), the Female Gothic and women’s historical fiction. I am currently working on a book entitled Female Gothic Histories: gender, history and the Gothic, which will be published by the University of Wales Press

Selected Publications

Books

The Woman’s Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 (Palgrave, 2004)
Sisters and Rivals in British Women’s Fiction, 1914-39 (Macmillan, 2000)

Book Chapters/Journal Articles

• Mixed marriages: three Welsh historical novels in English by women writers in Christopher Meredith, ed Moment of Earth: Poems and Essays in Honour of Jeremy Hooker, Celtic Studies Publications, 2007, 171-184
• The Convent Novel and the Uses of History, in Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewelyn, eds, Metanarrative and Metahistory in Contemporary Women’s Writing, Palgrave, 2007, 158-171
• A Kind of Genius:May Sinclair and The Divine Fire’, in Michele Troy and Andrew Kunka, eds, May Sinclair: Moving Towards the Modern, Ashgate, 2007, 49-64
• Why Tulips? A case study in historicising the historical novel, in Working Papers on the Web
• Special issue on the historical novel. 2006

Women’s Time: women, age and inter-generational relations in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 39:2 (Fall 2006), 43-59

• Uncanny Stories: the ghost story as female gothic, Gothic Studies, 6:1 (2004), 57-68
• History to the Defeated: women writers and the historical novel in the 1930s’, Critical Survey, 11:2 (2003), 76-92
• Retreating into History?:Historical novels by women writers, 1945-60, in Jane Dowson, ed., Women’s Writing 1945-60: After the Deluge, Palgrave, 2003, 131-147
• Ventriloquising the Male: two portraits of the artist as a young man, by May Sinclair and Edith Wharton, Men and Masculinities, 4:4 (2002), 322-333
• Revising the Marriage Plot in women’s fiction of the 1930s in Maroula Joannou, ed., Women Writers of the 1930s_, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, 63-75
• Writing as Re-Vision: women’s writing 1945 to the present day in Marion Shaw, ed., An Introduction to Women’s Writing, Prentice Hall, 1997, 235-63