Cathleen Rhodes

Cathleen Rhodes received her M.A. in Literature and Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. She is currently teaching composition, literature, and Women's Studies while preparing to enter a PhD program in 2010. Her primary research interests include nineteenth-century women’s writing and Victorian periodicals. She has recently participated in Women’s Studies and Victorian studies conferences, presenting “Victorian Shapeshifters: Refiguring the Nineteenth-Century Female Body” and “Saving Face and Empire: Imperialism, Cultural Commodification, and Cosmetics Advertising in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain.”)