Molly Clark Hillard

Assistant Professor of English

molly.hillard@usm.edu

Molly Clark Hillard specializes in 19th-century literature and culture. She is the author of such essays as “Dangerous Exchange: Fairy Footsteps, Goblin Economies, and The Old Curiosity Shop” (Dickens Studies Annual, 2005) “‘When Desert Armies Stand Ready to Fight’: Re-Reading Saturday and ‘Dover Beach,’” (Partial Answers, 2008) “‘A Perfect Form in Perfect Rest’: Spellbinding Narratives and Tennyson’s ‘Day Dream’” (Narrative, 2009), and “Dickens’s Little Red Riding Hood and Other Waterside Characters” (SEL, 2009). Her book manuscript is entitled Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and Other Victorian Literature. The project examines the relationship between fairy tales and canonical Victorian genres, and concludes that Victorian literature is “spellbound,” meaning that novelists, poets and playwrights yearn toward the fairy tale; that literary genres are bound to the fairy tale, dependent upon its forms and figures; and that fairy tales are captured within Victorian literary bindings. Dr. Hillard is also the graduate advisor to the English Graduate Organization.

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