Associate Professor, Department Chair Victorian, 18th-Century, and Native American Literatures

Sr. Mary Hotz, a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart, came to USD in 1996. She received her Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 1997, with a concentration in Victorian literature. Her central interests include nineteenth-century British literature and culture, Native American literature, and the development of the novel. Her most recent project, Literary Remains: Representations of Death and Burial in Victorian England, explores the unexpectedly central role of death and burial in Victorian England by locating corpses at the center of a surprisingly extensive range of Victorian concerns: money and law, medicine and urban architecture, social planning and folklore, religion and national identity.

Selected Publications:

- Literary Remains: Representations of Death and Burial in Victorian England. SUNY Press, forthcoming.

- “Precious to Grace: Necessary Desolation in Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard. Renascence, Volume 53, No. 3 (Spring 2001): 207-226.

- “A Grave with No Name: Representations of Death in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton.” Nineteenth-Century Studies, Volume 15 (2001): 37-56.

- “Down Among the Dead: Edwin Chadwick and Burial Reform Discourse in Mid- Nineteenth-Century England.” Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume 29, number 1 (2001): 21-38.

- “‘Taught By Death What Life Should Be’: Representation of Death in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South.” Studies in the Novel, Volume 32, number 2 (Summer 2000): 165-184.