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Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Professor of English
Chair of the Department of English
Kathe Tappe Vernon Professorship in Biography
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Departments and Programs

  • African and African American Studies
  • English

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Contact Information

Email: gretchen.h.gerzina@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-9363
Office: 6032 Sanborn House

Education

B.A. Marlboro College; A.M. Simmons College; Ph.D. Stanford University

Areas of Expertise

The novel; Victorian and modern British literature; Black British literature; African American literature.

Selected Works

  • Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend, (2008).
  • The Norton Critical Edition of The Secret Garden, (2006).
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unpredictable Life of the Author of "The Secret Garden", (2005).
  • Black Victorians/Black Victoriana, (2003).
  • Black London: Life Before Emancipation, (1995), (published in the UK as Black England, 1999).
  • Carrington: A Life, (1989).

Current Projects

The Norton Annotated Secret Garden