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Shari Hodges Holt serves as an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi, College of Liberal Arts, teaching British literature, Dickens studies, and cinema/media studies with expertise spanning literary and visual media analysis.
Her academic foundation includes:
- B.A. in English, University of Memphis (1986)
- M.A. in English, University of Memphis (1989)
- Ph.D. in English, University of Mississippi (2000)
Research focuses on Nineteenth-Century British Gothic traditions and Victorian literary forms, with specialized investigations into Charles Dickens' legacy and cross-media adaptation processes. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges historical textual analysis with contemporary cinematic reinterpretations, emphasizing how narrative structures transform across platforms.
Scholarly output reveals an evolution from foundational book-length studies of 19th-century authors to cutting-edge examinations of transmedia storytelling, particularly in Gothic horror adaptations and Dickensian cinematic legacies. Key trajectories include gender politics in Ouida's fiction, Dracula's multimedia manifestations, Dickens' afterlife in neo-Victorian works, and Disney's animated literary translations.
