Carla Manfredi

Title:Assistant Professor
Phone:204.786.9281
Office:2A37
Building:Ashdown Hall
Email:ca.manfredi@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

My book, Robert Louis Stevenson’sPacific Impressions: Travel and Photography, 1888-1894, tackles photography’s role during Stevenson’s travels throughout the Pacific Island region. My current research focuses on another Victorian writer-traveller: George Gissing. I’m currently working on an article-length study of Gissing’sBy the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy(1899) and his ethnographic interest for the human populations and cultures ofMagna Græcia.

Teaching Areas:
British poetry and prose; nineteenth-century literature; travel literature; colonial literature

Courses:
(W) ENGL-3754-001 Epic in Translation

Publications:
Book:

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Impressions: Photography and Travel Writing, 1888-1894. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Articles:

“Island Encounters in Focus: Photography and the R. L. Stevenson Family.”Victorian Review43.1: 65-84. 2017

“‘Sore Love’: R. L. Stevenson and Leprosy on Penrhyn Island.”Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies5.1. 27-43. 2017

“R. L. Stevenson’s Samoan Gothic: Representing Late-19th Century Plantations.”Pacific Studies39.3: 343-369. 2016

“Robert Louis Stevenson’s and Joseph Strong’s ‘A Samoan Scrapbook.’”The Journal of Stevenson Studies12: 4-31. 2015.