
Education: Ph.D. UCLA 1979
Office Location: PAR 221
Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00p and by appointment
Phone: (512) 471-8970
mackay@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Victorian Novel; Women's Studies;Autobiography; Authors: William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Julia Margaret Cameron, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Annie Besant, Elizabeth Robins, Virginia Woolf
Recent Publications: Creative Negativity: Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest, 2001.
''The Adventures of Philip'', Annotations for the Selected Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, annotator, 1990.
''The Encapsulated Romantic: John Harmon and the Boundaries of Victorian Soliloquy,'' Dickens Studies Annual: Essays in Victorian Fiction 18 1990: 255-76.
Dramatic Dickens, editor and introducer, 1989.
The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Biographical Introductions to the Centenary Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray 2 vols., editor and introducer, 1988.
Soliloquy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1987.
Awards and Honors: Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2003
Gilbert Award for Teaching Excellence in Women's and Gender Studies, 2002
President's Associates Award for Teaching Excellence, 2000 -2001
Harry Ransom Teaching Excellence Award, 1992
AMOCO Foundation, Chancellor's Outstanding New Teacher Award, 1981
UCLA Association of Academic Women Graduate Woman of the Year, 1979
UCLA English Department Teaching Award, 1976
Phi Beta Kappa, 1966