Dr. Carol Mackay

Biography

Carol H. MacKay is the J.R. Millikan Centennial Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. Her research focuses on the Victorian novel, women's studies, and autobiography, with an emphasis on authors such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Julia Margaret Cameron, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Annie Besant, Elizabeth Robins, and Virginia Woolf. MacKay has authored and edited six books, including 'Annie Besant's Autobiographical Sketches' published by Broadview Press, and 'Creative Negativity: Four Victorian Exemplars Female Quest' by Stanford University Press. She also collaborated with Edgar F. Harden on 'Adventures of Philip: Annotations of Selected Works of William Makepeace Thackeray'. Other notable works include 'Dramatic Dickens' and 'Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Biographical Introductions', a centenary edition of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, and 'Soliloquy Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Consciousness Creating Itself' published by Macmillan.

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