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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).