Publications and Papers
Research and Publications:
I have presented my work at various
conferences around the world, including:
April 2011
“Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond
and sapphire bracelet lasts forever”: Women, Shopping and
Consumerism in Anita Loos’ Gentleman Prefer Blondes.
BAAS Annual Conference, University of Central
Lancashire.
April 2009
‘Money, Marriage and Materialism: Women and Consumerism in the
Contemporary New York Novel’, BAAS Annual Conference,
University of Nottingham.
April 2007
‘Money, Money, Money: Working Women and Consumerism in the
Sentimental Fiction of Fannie Hurst’, PCA/ACA Annual
Conference, Boston.
June 2005
‘Shopping for Survival: Conspicuous Consumerism in Edith Wharton’s
The House of Mirth and Ellen Glasgow’s The Wheel of
Life’, Edith Wharton Society ‘The House of Mirth’
Centenary Conference, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New
York.
March 2005
‘Narcissistic Consumerism: The Horrors of Materialism in the
Fiction of Bret Easton Ellis’, PCA/ACA Annual Conference,
San Diego, California.
September 2004
'Public Space and Spectacle: The Female Body and Consumerism in
Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth’, ESSE Annual
Conference, Zaragoza, Spain.
Publications:
Books:
Writing into the Twenty-First Century:
Negotiating Change in the American Novel, eds. Elizabeth Boyle
& Anne-Marie Evans, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2010)
Reading America: New Perspectives on the
American Novel, eds. Elizabeth Boyle & Anne-Marie Evans,
(Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)
Articles in Peer-Reviewed
Journals:
“Shopping for Survival: Conspicuous
Consumerism in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and
Ellen Glasgow's The Wheel of Life.” Edith Wharton
Review, 22.2, (2006), 9-15.
“Intrusive Portraits: Deciphering Art in the
Fiction of Siri Hustvedt” MODE, Cornell University, New
York, September 2004.
Chapters in Books:
“Wharton’s Writings on Screen” in Edith
Wharton in Context, ed. Laura Rattray (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming 2012)
“Introduction”, co-authored with E. Boyle,
Writing into the Twenty-First Century: Negotiating Change in
the American Novel, eds. Elizabeth Boyle & Anne-Marie
Evans, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
“Introduction”, co-authored with E. Boyle,
Reading America: New Perspectives on the American Novel,
eds. Elizabeth Boyle & Anne-Marie Evans, (Newcastle: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2008), 1-6.
“Public Space and Spectacle: Female Bodies and
Consumerism in
Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth”,
Inside Out: Women Negotiating, Subverting, Appropriating
Public/ Private Space, eds. Teresa Gómez and Aránzazu
Usandizaga (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008), 107-124.
Pedagogical Reports:
“American Studies Literature Review” in
Rethinking Pedagogical Models in E-Learning, eds. Terry
Lamb and Danielle Barbereau, English Subject Centre (2006).
Shorter Articles and
Reports:
Evans,
Anne-Marie, "Fannie Hurst". The Literary Encyclopedia.
First published 01 October 2010
“America Actually: An Introduction”, U.S
Studies Online Special Conference Issue (2006).