Pauline Phipps

Adjunct Professor, History

Ph.D Carleton University, 2004
M.A. University of Windsor, 1997
B.F.A University of Windsor, 1993

pphipps@uwindsor.ca

Research & Teaching Interests

British Victorian History, European Women's History, Canadian Women’s History, historiography and historical method, feminist theory and feminist frameworks

Current Projects

I am currently finishing up a biography on a relatively unknown British Victorian educational pioneer named Constance Maynard (1849-1935) who founded Westfield College in London in 1882. Westfield was the first English college to prepare middle-class women for university degrees which, in turn, helped to pave the way for women's future rights. My interest is in exploring how Maynard's particular faith shaped her ambitions as an educational pioneer and her passions as a woman. Her life story gives us new insight into sexuality in general while enriching our understanding of Victorian femininity and sexuality in particular.

Selected Publications

“Faith, Desire, and Sexual Identit(ies): Constance Maynard’s Atonement for Passion,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18, 2 (May 2009), 265-286. 

“The Symbolic Body of the Historical Subject,” in Literary Texts and the Arts, vol. 18, eds., Corrado Federici and Esther Raventos (New York: Peter Lang), 2003, 163-73.

“Gender and Sexuality in Victorian England: An Analysis of The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland,” Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 17, 4, (Summer 2002), 112-17.

Courses Taught