Aviva Briefel
Associate Professor of English, Director of Gay and Lesbian Studies Program
Fall 2009
- From Page to Screen: Film Adaptation and Narrative (ENG 104)
- From Page to Screen: Film Adaptation and Narrative (ENG 104L1)
- Oscar Wilde (ENG 318)
| Phone | (207) 725-3014 |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Department | English |
| 2nd Title | Program Director |
| 2nd Department | GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES |
| Work Location | 205 Massachusetts Hall |
| abriefel@bowdoin.edu |
Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000
Teaching areas:
Victorian literature and culture; the horror film; women in film.
Research interests:
Narratives of art forgery, the horror film, sensation literature.
Publications:
“What Some Ghosts Don’t Know: Spectral Incognizance and the Horror Film,” forthcoming from Narrative.
"Hands of Beauty, Hands of Horror: Fear and Egyptian Art at the Fin de Siècle," forthcoming from Victorian Studies.
"Cosmetic Tragedies: Failed Masquerade in Wilkie Collins's The Law and the Lady," forthcoming from Victorian Literature and Culture.
"Take Me: The Rhetoric of Donation," forthcoming in The Anatomy of Body Worlds: Critical Essays on Gunther von Hagens’ Plastinated Cadavers (McFarland).
"Monsters and Critics," Film Quarterly 61.3 (2008).
"
The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century", Cornell University Press (2006)
"Christina Rossetti," Encyclopedia of British Literary History, Oxford University Press.
"Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in the Horror Film," Film Quarterly 58.3 (2005)
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"Tautological Crimes: Why Women Can't Steal Jewels," Novel 37.1/2 (2004)
Review of Mighall, Robert, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Nineteenth-Century Contexts 25.3 (2003).
"Illusory Idols/Sacred Objects: The Fake in Freud's 'The Moses of Michelangelo,'" American Imago 60.1 (2003). To be reprinted in a collection by Cambridge Scholars Press.
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"'How much did you pay for this place?': Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman," Camera Obscura 37 (1997). Co-authored with Sianne Ngai. Reprinted in The Horror Film Reader, eds. Alain Silver and James Ursini (New York: Limelight Editions/Proscenium Publishers, 2000).
Aviva Briefel also appeared on Bravo's Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.