{"id":3326,"date":"2024-08-06T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/?page_id=3326"},"modified":"2024-11-06T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T17:47:48","slug":"dr-kristen-figgins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/faculty\/dr-kristen-figgins\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Kristen Figgins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assistant Professor of English<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/11\/Kristen-Figgins-20240820-_J5A7486-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5128\" style=\"width:350px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/11\/Kristen-Figgins-20240820-_J5A7486-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/11\/Kristen-Figgins-20240820-_J5A7486-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/11\/Kristen-Figgins-20240820-_J5A7486-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/11\/Kristen-Figgins-20240820-_J5A7486-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/11\/Kristen-Figgins-20240820-_J5A7486-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/11\/Kristen-Figgins-20240820-_J5A7486.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>B.A. in English, University of Texas-Permian Basin<br>M.A. in English, University of Louisiana<br>Ph.D. in English, University of Arkansas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Publications:<br><\/strong>\u201cCorsets to Crop Tops: The Enduring Legacy of the Victorians in Adaptation: An Introduction.\u201d <em>South Atlantic Review\/Adapting the Victorians Special Issue. <\/em>Winter 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018What is it?\u2019 \u2018It is a lewd goblin\u2019: Taking Critical Cues from Illustrative Adaptations of Christina Rossetti\u2019s Goblin Market.\u201d<em> Adaptation. <\/em>Winter 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018Are We Not Men?\u2019 Science, Sympathy, and Women in Adaptations of H.G. Wells\u2019s The Island of Dr. Moreau.\u201d<em> Literature\/Film Quarterly. <\/em>Summer 2019<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>Alice, Animals, and Adaptation: How Alice\u2019s Early Adaptation History Nurtured John Tenniel\u2019s Influence on Wonderland.\u201d <em>Adaptation Before Cinema, <\/em>Ed. Glenn Jellenik and Lissette Lopez Szwydky, Palgrave, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTestimonies of the Permian Basin,\u201d<em> Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary<\/em> <em>Petrosphere, AnthropoScene Series, <\/em>Ed. Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi, Pennsylvania State University Press, October 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCrude: The Unrefined Communities and Landscapes of Petrofiction.\u201d<em> Boom or Bust: Narrative,<\/em> <em>Life, and Culture in the West Texas Oil Patch, <\/em>University of Oklahoma Press, April 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018The Integrity of Nature\u2019: A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Anxieties in the Fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and Jeff VanderMeer<em>&#8221; Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era<\/em> <em>of Loss, <\/em>Ed. Jonathan Elmore, Rowman &amp; Littlefield, April 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFlash and Fabulism: A New Marriage of Old Forms,\u201d <em>Critical Insights: Flash Fiction, <\/em>Grey House Publishing, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of English B.A. in English, University of Texas-Permian BasinM.A. in English, University of LouisianaPh.D. in English, University of Arkansas Selected Publications:\u201cCorsets to Crop Tops: The Enduring Legacy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5132,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3326\/revisions\/5132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}