Melissa Free

Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South Africa Novel. State U of New York P, 2021. Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Editor. The Dead and Other Stories, by James Joyce. Broadview, 2014. Broadview Anthology of British Literature. 

"Settler Colonialism." Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 46, no. 3, Sept. 2018, pp. 876-82.

"British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement." The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture, edited by Juliet John, Oxford UP, 2016, pp. 284-309.

"Fault Lines of Loyalty: Rudyard Kipling's Boer War Conflict." Victorian Studies, vol. 58, no. 2, Winter 2016, pp. 314-23.

"Frustrated Listening in Heart of Darkness." Conradiana, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring 2015, pp. 1-16.

"'It Is I Who Have the Power': Settling Women in Haggard's South African Imaginary." Genre, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall 2012, pp. 359-93.

"An Education in the Unwholesome: Dirt, Stench, and Desire in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Critical Insights: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by Albert Wachtel, Salem-EBSCO, 2011, pp. 35-49.

"'Who is G.C.?': Misprizing Gabriel Conroy in Joyce's 'The Dead.'" Joyce Studies Annual, 2009, pp. 277-303. 

"Freaks That Matter: The Dolls' Dressmaker, the Doctor's Assistant, and the Limits of Difference." Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp, Ohio State UP, 2008, pp. 259-82. (Reissued in paperback, 2015.)

"Relegation and Rebellion: The Queer, the Grotesque, and the Silent in the Fiction of Carson McCullers." Studies in the Novel, vol. 40, no. 4, Winter 2008, pp. 426-46.

"'Dirty Linen': Legacies of Empire in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 48, no. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 340-71.

"Un-Erasing Crusoe: Farther Adventures in the Nineteenth Century." Book History, vol. 9, 2006, pp. 89-130.