Publications

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT

Books

Marshall, Bridget M. Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature. University of Wales Press. June 2021.

Marshall, Bridget M. and Monika Elbert. Co-Editors. Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century. Co-Edited collection and co-authored Introduction. Ashgate. January 2013. 

Marshall, Bridget M. The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790 – 1860. Ashgate. January 2011.

Book Chapters

Marshall, Bridget M. “The Haunted Industrialized Nightscape: Factories, Mills, and Ironworks at Night.” Enlightened Nightscapes: Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night. Ed. Pamela F. Phillips. New York: Routledge, April 2023. 234-251.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Suicide as Justice? The self-destroying Gothic villain in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood.” Suicide and the Gothic. Ed. William Hughes and Andrew Smith. Manchester: Manchester University Press, August 2019. 96 – 109.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Fright Factories: Nineteenth-Century Industrial Gothic.” Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories. Ed. Agnieszka Lowcazanin and Katarzyna Malecka. New York: Routledge, 2018. 163 – 179.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Romanticism, Gothic, and the Law.” Law and Literature. Ed. Kieran Dolin. Cambridge University Press, 2018. 142 – 156.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Things as They’re Told: The Power of Narrative in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” Gothic Topographies: Language, Nation Building and ‘Race.’ Ed. Paivi Mehtonen and Matti Savolainen. Ashgate. 2013. 43 – 55.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Southern Gothic: Background and History.” Southern Gothic Literature. Ed. Jay Ellis. Salem Press. April 2013. 3 – 18.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Who Cares about Plagiarism? Cheating and Consequences in the Pop Culture Classroom.” Critical Conversations about Plagiarism. Eds. Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler, Tracy Ann Morse, Rebecca Ingalls, Michael Donnelly, and Joanna Castner. Parlor Press. November 2012. 137 – 150.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Comics as Primary Sources: The Case of Journey into Mohawk Country.” Comic Books and American Cultural History. Ed. Matthew J. Pustz. New York: Continuum, February 2012. 26 – 39.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Literature and Law Lite: Approaches in Surveys and General Education Courses.” Teaching Law and Literature (MLA Options for Teaching Series). Eds. Matthew Anderson and Catherine O. Frank. July 2011. 268 – 275.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Stoker’s Dracula and the Vampire’s Literary History.” Critical Insights: Dracula. Ed. Jack Lynch. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press. September 2009. 23 – 37.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Canon of American Literature.” Critical Insights: Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ed. Jack Lynch. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press. September 2009. 21 – 32.

Marshall, Bridget M. and Brian Ogilvie. “‘There shall be a wonder in Hadley!’: Mary Webster’s ‘Hideous Witchcraft.’” Cultivating a Past: Essays in the History of Hadley, Massachusetts. Ed. Marla Miller, University of Massachusetts Press. May 2009. 135 – 153.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Salem’s Ghosts and the Cultural Capital of Witches.” Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock. The University of Wisconsin Press. June 2004. 244 – 263.

Marshall, Bridget M. Contributing Editor and Author of “Biographical Sketch,” “Story Behind the Story,” “List of Characters,” and “Summary & Analysis” for Bloom’s Guide to Pride and Prejudice. Chelsea House Publishers. Fall 2004. 10 – 58.

Marshall, Bridget M. “‘South Park’: For (Im)Mature Audiences Only.” Closely Watched Brains. Eds. John Sakeris and Murray Pomerance. Boston: Pearson Education, 2001. 121-134.

Journal Articles

Marshall, Bridget M. “New England’s Nineteenth-Century Ecogothic Nightmares: Bees and Rivers as Metaphors and Harbingers” Studies in American Fiction. 50.1-2 (2023): 31-53.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Labour, Literature and Culture in the Not Just Long but also ‘Vast Nineteenth Century.’” Journal of Victorian Culture. 28.3 (2023): 474-478.

Marshall, Bridget M. “‘There is a secret down here, in this nightmare fog’: Urban-Industrial Gothic in Nineteenth-Century American Periodicals.” Women’s Studies. 46.8 (2017): 767-784. 

Marshall, Bridget M. “Making Stories Matter Inside and Outside the Classroom: Service Learning in a Disability in Literature Course.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. Teaching Disability Issue. 25.2. Winter 2016.  65 – 77.

Elbert, Monika M, and Bridget M. Marshall. “Introduction: Haunted Hawthorne, Hawthorne’s Hauntings.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. 38.2 Fall 2012. ii – xiv.

Marshall, Bridget M. “An Evil Game: Gothic Villains and Gaming Addictions.” Gothic Studies.11.2. Special Issue on Addiction. Ed. Carol Margaret Davison. November 2009. 9 – 18.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Reading New England Witchcraft Trials: The Case of Mary Parsons.” Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies NewsletterSpring 2002: 13 – 16.

Marshall, Bridget M. “The Face of Evil: Phrenology, Physiognomy, and the Gothic Villain.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS)6.2 (Fall 2000): 161 – 172.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Caddy and Quentin: Last Action Heroines.” The Lehigh Review5 (1997): 89-98.

 

Articles in Scholarly Web-Based Publications

Marshall, Bridget M. “Teaching the Early American Literature Survey: Expanding the Canon Using Internet Resources.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice.Special Edition: Teaching Electronically. 2.4 Winter 2009. http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/winter-2009-2-4/marshall_winter_2009.pdf/view

Marshall, Bridget M. “Teaching Bierce’s ‘The Boarded Window’ for Practice in Close Reading.’” The Ambrose Bierce Project Journal. Fall 2008. Vol. 4, No. 1. Penn State Erie. http://www.ambrosebierce.org/journal4marshall.html

Marshall, Bridget M. The Goody Parsons Witchcraft Case: A Journey into 17th-Century Northampton.Principal Researcher, Writer, and Curator for entire web site at http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/parsons/

Marshall, Bridget M. “Witch Trials.” Source List. The Infography. http://www.infography.com/ November 2001.

 

Reference / Encyclopedia Articles

Marshall, Bridget M. “Fun Home. A Family Tragicomedy.” Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives. Couser, G. Thomas, and Susannah B. Mintz, editors. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2019. Volume I, 254 – 257.

Marshall, Bridget M. “One More Theory About Happiness.”Disability ExperiencesDisability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives. Couser, G. Thomas, and Susannah B. Mintz, editors. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2019. Volume II, 583 – 586.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Journey into Mohawk Country.” Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independents & Underground Classics. Ed. Bart Beaty and Stephen Weiner. Salem Press. May 2012. 424 – 428.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Vathek.’”Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts on File. October 2010. 471 – 472.

Marshall, Bridget M. “The Jolly Corner.” The Critical Companion to Henry James. Eds. Kendall Johnson and Eric Haralson. Clearmark Books, Facts on File. August 2009. 255 – 260.

Marshall, Bridget M. “New York City.” The Critical Companion to Henry James. Eds. Kendall Johnson and Eric Haralson. Clearmark Books, Facts on File. August 2009. 420 – 422.

 

Review Essay

Marshall, Bridget M. “It’s still alive! Global Revolutions in Gothic Literature and Gothic Literary Studies.” Invited Review Essay covering four new books on the Gothic. Kritikon Litterarum: International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies. 42 ½ (2015): 103121. ISSN 0340-9767 · e-ISSN 1865-724.

 

Reviews

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein by Eileen Hunt Botting. Journal of British Studies. 58.3 (Fall 2019). 641 – 642.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861bySiân Silyn Roberts.  Modern Philology. 12.4 (May 2015). 330 – 332.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America by Elaine Forman Crane. Early American Literature. 48.1 (2013). 248 – 252.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Haunted Minds and Ambiguous Approaches by Samuel Chase Coale. TheNathaniel Hawthorne Review. 38.1 (Spring 2012). 94 – 98.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early Americaby Christopher Lukasik. Studies in the Novel. 43.3 (Fall 2011). 376 – 378.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literatureby Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. The Review of English Studies. 62.256 (2011). 666 – 668.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of From Demons to Dracula The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth by Matthew Beresford, Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film by Barry Curtis, and A Philosophy of Fear by Lars Svendsen. Kritikon Litterarum: International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies. 37 (2010). 104 – 112.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Confessions of a Poisoner, Written by Herself. Modern Language Studies.40.1 (2010). 92 – 94. 

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Contemporary Gothic. By Catherine Spooner. Kritikon Litterarum: International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies. 35 (2008). 84 – 88.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Captivating Subjects: Writing, Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright. Kritikon Litterarum: International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies. 34 (2007). 84 – 87.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Charles Brockden Brown’s Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic. By Peter Kafer. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 103.4 (2006). 782 – 783. 

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture. By Bill Ellis. andCrimes of Art + Terror. By Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe. Kritikon Litterarum: International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies. 32 (2005). 133 – 136.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text Reader. Edited by Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez (Sage Publications, 2003). M/C Reviewshttp://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=599 February 2003.

Marshall, Bridget M. Review ofNursery Realms: Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and HorrorEdited by Gary Westfahl and George Slusser (University of Georgia Press, 1999).Scope: An On-Line Journal of Film Studies. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/  August 2001.

Public Scholarship and Popular Press Publications

Marshall, Bridget M. “How dogs were implicated during the Salem Witch Trials,” The Conversation. 15 October 2024. https://theconversation.com/how-dogs-were-implicated-during-the-salem-witch-trials-239802 As of 17 October 2024, the article has had over 22,000 readers and was republished by Atlas Obscura.

Marshall, Bridget M. “The Only Thing a Woman Can Drive is a Broom.” Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism from Signs. 23 May 2022.  http://signsjournal.org/chollet/

Marshall, Bridget M. “Witch hunts were all about persecuting powerless women,” Actively Learn. 12 October 2021. https://reader.activelylearn.com/authoring/preview/3943191/notes. This is an adaptation of my piece for the Conversation (2019) with annotations for middle and high school students.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Remembering the Unnamed Women of History as a WikiScholar.” Invited Reflection Essay. WikiScholars Program Blog. 28 January 2020. https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/01/28/remembering-the-unnamed-women-of-history-as-a-wiki-scholar/

Marshall, Bridget M. “Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless,” The Conversation. 28 October 2019. https://theconversation.com/most-witches-are-women-because-witch-hunts-were-all-about-persecuting-the-powerless-125427. As of 10 October 2024, the article has had over 400,000 readers, and was picked up by Public Radio International, Salon, and many other outlets around the world.

Marshall, Bridget M. Reprint of “A Tale of Two Graves: Barilla Adeline Taylor and Louisa Maria Wells, Mill Girls of Lowell, Massachusetts.” Nineteenth Century: The Magazine of the Victorian Society of America 38.2 Fall 2018, 30 – 33.

Marshall, Bridget M. “A Tale of Two Graves: Barilla Adeline Taylor and Louisa Maria Wells, Mill Girls of Lowell, Massachusetts.” Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) Quarterly 40.1 Spring 2016, 3-7.

Marshall, Bridget M. “Margaret Foley Sculptor, Mill Girl, Inspired Others to Make Their Way as Artists.” The Lowell Sun. 30 June 2015.

Marshall, Bridget M. The Goody Parsons Witchcraft Case: A Journey into 17th-Century Northampton. Principal Researcher, Writer, and Curator for permanent physical exhibit in the Parsons House, Historic Northampton. Northampton, Massachusetts. Installed October 2002.

Marshall, Bridget M. Animal Crackers: A Tender Story about Death and Funerals and Love. Omaha: Centering Corporation, 1998. Children’s Book. Selected as a Parent Council Award Winner as “an outstanding children’s book” in 1998.