Carla Manfredi
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 204.786.9281
Office: 2A37
Email: ca.manfredi@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Carla Manfredi (Queen's University, 2014) is the author of multiple articles on the Victorian author Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific as well as the 2018 monograph: Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Impressions: Photography and Travel Writing, 1888-1894 (Palgrave Macmillan). Her current research focuses on the scientific, missionary, and literary engagement with Pacific atolls during the long nineteenth century.
Teaching Areas:
British poetry and prose; nineteenth-century literature; travel literature; colonial literature
Courses:
| U2024F | ENGL-3211-001 | VICTORIAN LIT AND CULT |
| U2024FW | ENGL-1001-001 | ENGLISH 1 |
| U2024FW | ENGL-2601-001 | THE NOVEL |
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:
"Atoll Weather: R. L. Stevenson and Rising Tides." Victorian Review, 47.1: 40-44. 2021.
“Island Encounters in Focus: Photography and the R. L. Stevenson Family.” Victorian Review 43.1: 65-84. 2017
“‘Sore Love’: R. L. Stevenson and Leprosy on Penrhyn Island.” Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 5.1. 27-43. 2017
“R. L. Stevenson’s Samoan Gothic: Representing Late-19th Century Plantations.” Pacific Studies 39.3: 343-369. 2016
“Robert Louis Stevenson’s and Joseph Strong’s ‘A Samoan Scrapbook.’” The Journal of Stevenson Studies 12: 4-31. 2015.