Janna Chance
Professor of English
About
Prof. Chance completed her Ph.D. from Rice University. Her dissertation, “Obeying God Rather than Men: Protestant Individualism and the Empowerment of the Victorian Heroine,” won the Chair’s Dissertation Prize, the Rice University English Department’s annual award for the most outstanding dissertation.
Education
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Ph.D, Rice University
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M.A., Rice University
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B.A., Texas A&M University
Scholarship
Articles
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Original Sin and Feminine Virtue in Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife (2020)
Christianity & Literature
Presentations
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Mary Augusta Ward (2010)
2010 Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association Conference
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Fire, Brimstone, and Female Empowerment in the Anti-Oxford Movement Writings of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and Caroline Fry (2009)
Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association Conference
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Femininity and Consent in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Mansfield Park’ (2008)
One Community, One Event Series sponsored by Jackson Public Library
Dissertations
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Obeying God Rather than Men: Protestant Individualism and the Empowerment of the Victorian Heroine (2008)
Rice University
Awards
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Chair’s Dissertation Prize (2008)
Awarded for the most outstanding dissertation of the year.