Marlene Tromp Affiliation: Faculty Title: Professor Office: Barney-Davis 208 Email: tromp@denison.edu Phone: 740-587-6570

Marlene Tromp, John and Christine Warner Professor of English and Women's Studies, came to Denison in 1997. She studies Victorian literature and culture, gender, critical theory, and pop culture. She teaches courses in these areas and in service learning. She is author of Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self in Victorian Spiritualism (SUNY 2006) and The Private Rod: Sexual Violence, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England (U Press of Virginia 2000). In addition, she has edited and contributed to a volume called Victorian 'Freaks': The Social Context of Freakery in the Nineteenth Century (OSU Press 2008) and co-edited and contributed to Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Beyond Sensation (SUNY 2000).  She is presently at work on a book entitled Romanticizing Titanic:  Race, Class, and Gender on a Sinking Ship.