Chris Roulston

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519-661-2111 ext 88931

Bureau:
University College, room 4118

Courriel: croulsto@uwo.ca

1984 B.A. Hons English and French, University of Southampton, U.K.
1986 M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Toronto       
1993 PhD Comparative Literature, University of Toronto

General areas of academic specialisation

Anne Lister; marriage literature; boarding school literature; eighteenth-century women’s literature; Mme de Graffigny; queer theory; feminist theory; poststructuralism

Publications

Monographs and Edited Collections

Queer Nostalgia, Colonialism, and the Girls’ Boarding School Narrative, 1933-2023. London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2026.

The Cambridge Companion to Anne Lister. Chris Roulston and Caroline Gonda (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026.

Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’. Chris Roulston and Caroline Gonda (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 282 pp.

Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2010. 240 pp.

Virtue, Gender and the Authentic Self in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Rousseau, and Laclos. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. 211 pp.

Chapters in Edited Collections

“From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack: Queer Temporality, Fandom and the Gains and Losses of Adaptation.” Chris Roulston and Caroline Gonda (eds). Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack.’ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 240-261.

“Graffigny, Zilia, et la question du mariage au XVIIIe siècle.” Charlotte Simonin (ed.). Françoise de Graffigny (1695-1758), femme de lettres des Lumières. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020. 271-288.

“Representations of Marriage.” A Cultural History of Marriage: Volume 4 The Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800). Ed. Edward J. Behrend-Martinez. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020. 115-132.

Articles in Refereed Journals

“From Text to Screen: Gentleman Jack Then and Now.” Journal of Lesbian Studies. Online publication. 7 June 2022.

"Interpreting the Thin Archive: Anne Lister, Eliza Raine and Telling School Tales." Eighteenth-Century Studies 55.2 (2022): 191-213.

"Sexuality in Translation: Anne Lister and the Ancients." Journal of the History of Sexuality (JHS) 30.1 (January 2021): 112-135.

"Queer Parenting and the Challenge to Queer Theory." Special Issue of Studies in Canadian Literature: Queer Bodies/Corps Queer (SCL) 46.1 (2021): 1-28.

"Translating Desire: Queer Affect, Autobiography and Involuntary Love in Dorothy Strachey's Olivia (1949)." Modernism/Modernity 5.2 (July 30, 2020). 

Forthcoming Chapters and Articles

“When ‘Fred’ Meets ‘Frank’: Female Masculinity, Classical Coding and Queer Temporalities in the Anne Lister Diaries.” Quintus Immisch and Saskia Schomber (eds). Untimely Encounters: Queer Temporalities and the Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Brill Press, forthcoming 2026.

Entry on Choderlos de Laclos, "Dangerous Connections (1784)". Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. In press.

Book Reviews

Jill Liddington. As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2023. Women’s History Review 34.3 (2025): 523-524.

Mary Zaborskis. Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability. New York: New York University Press, 2023. Children’s Literature 53 (Spring 2025): forthcoming.

"Dorothy Strachey, Olivia (1949)." Introduction André Aciman. London: Penguin Classics, 2020. Modernism/Modernity 6.3 (18 January 2022).