Carla Manfredi

Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 204.786.9281
Office: 2A37
Building: Ashdown Hall
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:

(F) ENGL-1000-003: ENGLISH 1A

(W) ENGL-2230-001: BRITISH LIT/CULT 1660-1901

(FW) ENGL-2601-001: THE NOVEL

(F) ENGL-4281-001: VICTORIAN LIT / CULT

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.