B.A. International Affairs, The George Washington University, 1987.
M.A. English, George Mason University, 1991
Ph.D. English, The University of Tennessee, 1998
Chair and Professor of the Department of English at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Bachman received the University’s 2012 Distinguished Teacher Scholar Lecturer Award. The award recognizes annually a Coastal Carolina University faculty member who has distinguished him/herself as a teacher, a scholar, and a communicator. In 2006, Bachman was named South Carolina Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is co-editor of Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia (Ohio State University Press, 2013) and Reality’s Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins (University of Tennessee Press, 2003). She has edited several scholarly editions, including: Wilkie Collins’s “The Dead Hand”and Charles Dickens’s “The Bride’s Chamber” (University of Tampa Press, 2009); Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (Broadview Press, 2006); and Wilkie Collins’s Blind Love (Broadview Press, 2004). Bachman has also published numerous critical articles on nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Her current book project is entitled, This is Your Brain on Books: Embodied Consciousness and the Novel. Prior to serving as Chair of the English Department, Dr. Bachman held a number of administrative posts at Coastal Carolina University, including: Director of Interdisciplinary Studies; Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program; and Co-Director of the University Honors Program.
Email: Mbachman@coastal.edu