Diane D’Amico
Title: Professor
Research Fields of Interest: 19th-century British literature (especially the life and poetry of Christina Rossetti), and 20th-Century Irish Literature
Department: English
Degrees: B.A., Merrimack College; M.A., Villanova University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Contact Info
Email: diane.damico@allegheny.edu
Phone: (814) 332-4330
Office Info
Office Location: Oddfellows room #231
Office Hours: FALL 2012 -TBA
Course and Syllabi:
Spring 2012
English 313*00: Major Author: Jane Austen Download Syllabus
FS 102*W9: Academic Discourse II Download Syllabus
FSENG 201*01: Writing & Speaking Brontes Download Syllabus
Fall 2011
English 200*01: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 455*00: Religion and the Victorians Download Syllabus
English 551*00: Jr. Sem: Rossetti & Browning Download Syllabus
Spring 2011
English 301*00: Forms/Fiction: Neo’victorian Download Syllabus
English 313*00: Major Author: Jane Austen Download Syllabus
FSENG 201*00: Writing & Speaking About Lit. Download Syllabus
Fall 2010
English 200*10: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 202*00: Studies in Later British Literature Download Syllabus
English 211*00: Women and Literature Download Syllabus
Spring 2010
FS 102w: Academic Disccourse II
English 445*00: Topics in Victorian Literature
English 200*00: Reading Literature
Spring 2009
FS 102w: Academic Discourse II: Literature of the Irish Famine
English 202*00: Studies in Later British Literature
English 553*00: Junior Seminar: Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
Fall 2008
English 200*00: Reading Literature
FSENGL 201*00: Writing and Speaking about Literature: The Brontes
English 301*00: Forms of Fiction: The Neo-Victorian Novel
Spring 2008
FS102w: Academic Discourse II: Literature of the Irish Famine
English 455*00: Topics in Victorian Literature: Religious Controversies
English 202*00: Studies in Later British Literature
Fall 2007
English 200*00: Reading Literature
FSENGL 201*00: Writing and Speaking about Literature: The Brontes
English 550*00: Junior Seminar: Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
Spring 2007
FS 102 W: Academic Discourse II: Literature of the Irish Famine
English 202*00: Studies in Later British Literature
English 552*00: Junior Seminar: The Brontes
Fall 2006 (on sabbatical)
Spring 2006
English 200*00: Reading Literature
English 455*00: Topics in Victorian Literature: Religious Controversies
English 610*00: Senior Project Seminar: Literature and History
Publications
Books
- D’Amico, Diane. Christina Rosetti: Faith, Gender, and Time. Louisiana State University Press, 1999.*
Essays
- D’Amico, Diane. “Christina Rossetti.” Biographical History of Women Biblical Interpreters. Ed. Marion Taylor. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Publishing, forthcoming, 2011.
- D’Amico, Diane. “The House of Christina Rossetti: Domestic and Poetic Spaces.” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies. n.s. 19 (Spring2010): 31-54.
- D’Amico, Diane. “From Sunset to Star Rise”: Christina Rossetti’s Winter Sonnet.” Fourteen English Sonnets: Critical Essays. Ed. Michael Hanke. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007. 85-96.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Christina Rossetti’s Breast Cancer:`Another Matter Painful to Dwell Upon.’” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies. n.s. 15 (Fall 2006): 28-50.*
- D’Amico, Diane and David A. Kent. “Christina Rossetti and the Tractarians: A Review of the Scholarship.” Victorian Poetry. 43 (Spring 2006): 93-103.
- D’Amico, Diane and David A. Kent. “Christina Rossetti’s Notes on Genesis and Exodus,” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studiesn.s. 13 (Spring 2004): 49-98. *
- D’Amico, Diane. “Christina Rossetti’s Last Poem: `Sleeping at Last’ or `Heaven Overarches’?” The Victorian Newsletter103 (Spring 2003): 10-16. *
- D’Amico, Diane. “Lisa Wilson: `A Friend of Christina Rossetti,’” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, n.s. 10 (Fall 2001): 109-129.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Saintly Singer or Tanagra Figurine? Christina Rossetti Through the Eyes of Katharine Tynan and Sara Teasdale.” Victorian Poetry 32 (Autumn-Winter 1994): 387-407.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Christina Rossetti and The English Woman’s Journal.” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, n.s. 3 (Spring 1994): 20-24.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Christina Rossetti’s `Helpmeet.’” Victorian Newsletter 85 (Spring 1994): 25- 29.
- D’Amico, Diane. “`Equal before God’: Christina Rossetti and the Fallen Women of Highgate Penitentiary.” Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art. Eds. Antony Harrison and Beverly Taylor. Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1992. 67-83.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Fair Margaret and `Maiden-Song’: Rossetti’s Response to the Romantic Nightingale.” Victorian Newsletter, 80 (Fall 1991): 8-13.
- D’Amico, Diane. “`Choosing the stairs that mount above’: Christina Rossetti and the Anglican Sisterhoods.” Essays in Literature 17 (Fall 1990): 204-217.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Christina Rossetti’s ‘From Sunset to Star Rise’: A New Reading.” Victorian Poetry 27 (Spring 1989): 95-100.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Christina Rossetti’s Christian Year: Comfort for the `weary heart.’” Victorian Newsletter 72 (Fall 1987): 36-41.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Eve, Mary, and Mary Magdalene: Christina Rossetti’s Feminine Triptych.” The Achievement of Christina Rossetti. Ed. David Kent. New York: Cornell University Press, 1987. 175-191.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Reading and Rereading George Herbert and Christina Rossetti.” John Donne Journal 4 (1985): 269-289.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Maria: Christina Rossetti’s `Irreplaceable Sister and Friend.’” The Sister Bond. Ed. Toni McNaron. Elmsford, New York: Pergamon Press, 1985. 23-36.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Christina Rossetti’s`Maiden Song’: The Regal Power of Humility and Patience.” The Journal of Pre Raphaelite Studies 6 (Nov. 1985): 24-33.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Feeling and Conception of Character in the Novels of Charles Robert Maturin.” Massachusetts Studies in English 9 (Fall 1984): 32 44.
- D’Amico, Diane “Christina Rossetti: The Maturin Poems,” Victorian Poetry 19 (Summer 1981): 117 137.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Christina Rossetti’s Maude: A Reconsideration,” University of Dayton Review 15 (Spring 1981): 131 43.
- D’Amico, Diane. “A Possible Source for Christina Rossetti’s World Woman.” The Journal of Pre Raphaelite Studies 1 (May 1981): 126 27.
- D’Amico, Diane. “Christina Rossetti’s `Later Life’: The Neglected Sonnet Sequence.” Victorians Institute Journal 9 (1980 81): 21 28.
- D’Amico, Diane. “`To another land’: An Analysis of Christina Rossetti’s `Moonshine,’” The Pre-Raphaelite Review 3 (Nov. 1979): 54-62.
Reviews
- D’Amico, Diane. Review of The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti, vol. 3, ed. by R. W. Crump. Victorian Poetry 30 (Spring 1992): 87-91.
- D’Amico. Diane. Review of Christina Rossetti: A Literary Life by Jan Marsh. Southern Humanities Review, 31 (Winter 1997): 74-77.
- D’Amico, Diane. Review of A Rossetti Family Chronology, ed. by Alison Chapman and Joanna Meacock. Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, forthcoming 2009.
Conference Papers
- “Ruins and Remembrance: Forgetting and Remembering the Irish Famine,” Colloquium Vinosum, Allegheny College. (March 2007)
- “Christina Rossetti and Her Circle: Rossetti as Literary Foremother,” The Christina Rossetti Conference, Yale University. (November 1994)
Awards
- Holder of the National Endowment for Humanities Chair. (1994-1997)
- Holder of the Frederick F. Seeley Chair (Fall 2010 – )
