Leah Price

Teaching

Current courses

Past courses

Advisees

Ph.D. theses advised:

In progress:

  • Javiera Barrientos.

    “Literary Landfills. An approximation to bibliowaste and its representations (1570-1890)” (chair)

  • Lucina Schwartz (on

    the provincial novel) (chair)

  • Rachel Glassman (on

    Victorian representations of Hong Kong)

  • Laurena Tsudama (on

    fictional truth-telling) (chair)

  • Mitchell Edwards

    (on U.S. cold war activist printing) (co-chair)

Completed

(at
Rutgers)

(at Harvard):

as committee chair:

o
Hannah Rosefield, “The Victorian Stepmother”
2024

o
Porter
White (The Progress of Pilgrimage: Site, Route, and Spirit in
Nineteenth-Century Britain) 2019

§
VAP
at Stonehill College

o
Rachel
Stern (“Fictions of Selfhood in the Age of the Social Fact”; 2018)
Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford; Lecturer, National University of
Singapore
British Novel” (2010)
Miranda.
Modernist Revision” (2008)

    • Matt

      Franks (“Stages of Subscription, 1880-1922”) (2016)

      • Lecturer

        in Drama (tenure-track), University of Warwick

    • Heather

      Brink-Roby (Typical People in the Nineteenth-Century Novel; chair) (2014)

      • Junior

        Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge University; Postdoctoral

    • Matthew Sussman

      “Stylistic Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Fiction” (2013)

      • Senior

        Lecturer, University of Sydney

    • Lesley Goodman “Indignant

      Reading,” (2013)

      • Assistant professor,

        Albright College.

    • Liz Maynes-Aminzade

      “Victorian Macrorealism” (2013)

      • Games editor, New

        Yorker

    • Maia McAleavey, “The

      Shadowy Third: Bigamy and the Victorian Novel” (2010)

      • Associate

        Professor of English, Boston College

    • Daniel

      Pollack-Pelzner “Talking Shakespeare in the Nineteenth‑Century

      • Professor

        of English, Linfield College (until 2021). Authorized biography, Lin-Manuel

    • Hannah

      Sullivan “Passionate Correction: The Theory and Practice of

Associate Professor
of English, Oxford University.
Leverhulme Fellow. Assistant
Professor, Stanford.

    • Melissa Jenkins

      “The Father Refigured” (2007)

      • Associate

        Professor of English, Wake Forest University

as
committee member:

o
Tess
McNulty, “Content Culture” (2021)

§
Assistant
professor of English, University of Illinois

o Sezen Unluonen, “Art as Object of Historical
Knowledge in the 19th century” (2021)

§ Lecturer, Tel Aviv University

America 1830-1920”)
Novel”, 2018)
(2017)
Thought” (2015)
Archaeology of the Future in Romanticism” (2015)
Experience in the Novel” (2013)
Realism” (2011)

    • Alex Creighton, “Fiction’s Metronomes: Music, Time,

      and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel” (2021)

    • Emily

      Silk (“Uncommon Schools: Literature and the Rise of Public Education in

      • Acquisitions

        editor, Harvard University Press.

    • Amanda

      Auerbach (“Getting Lost in the 18th- and 19th-Century

    • Alison

      Chapman “Ornament and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Novel”

      • Harvard

        Expository Writing Program

    • Annie

      Wyman “Funny Book: Studies in the Comic Novel” (2017)

      • Screenwiter,

        “The Chair”

    • Carra

      Glatt “Counterfactuals in the Nineteenth Century Novel” (2016)

      • Tenure-track

        lecturer, Bar-Ilan University

    • Daniel

      Williams “The Hap of Things: Uncertainty and the English Novel” (2015)

      • Harvard

        Society of Fellows; Assistant Professor, Bard College

    • Margaret

      Rennix “Cognitive Binding: 19th Century Literature and the Structure of

      • Harvard

        Expository Writing Program

    • Laura

      Johnson Forsberg “The Miniature and Victorian Literature” (2015)

      • Fellow,

        Huntington Library; tenure-track asst prof at Rockhurst Univ

    • Matthew

      Ocheltree “The Adventure of Origins, the Politics of Genre, and the

      • Lecturer,

        Harvard English department.

    • Jenkins,

      R.J. (on ethology and the Victorian novel) (2015)

      • Associate

        Dean of Students, Columbia University

    • Greta

      Pane, “The First Scale of Attention: Linguistic Form and Aesthetic

      • Kilachand Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University.
    • Elaine

      Auyoung, “Partial Cues and the Promise of More in Nineteenth-Century

      • Associate

        Professor, University of Minnesota

    • Sarah Wagner-McCoy,

      “Transatlantic pastoral and the realist novel” (2011)

      • Associate

        Professor of English, Reid College

    • Jacob Jost,

      “Prose immortality, 1711-1791” (2011)

      • Associate

        Professor, Dickinson College

Julia Lee, “The American
Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel, 1833-1863” (2008)

Professor, Loyola
Marymount University
Newspaper” (2004)
Victorian Britain,” 2007. Third reader.)
affect of literary realism from Wordsworth to Joyce,” 2007. Third reader)
1850‑1960,” 2006. Third reader)

    • Debra Gettelman,

      “Reverie, Reading and the Victorian Novel” (2005)

      • Professor,

        College of the Holy Cross

    • Matthew Rubery

      “The Novelty of News: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the

      • Professor,

        Queen Mary, University of London.

    • Allen

      MacDuffie (“The City and the Sun: The Rise of Energy Culture in

      • Professor,

        University of Texas, Austin

    • Guillermo

      Bleichmar (Comparative Literature; “Reconciliations with reality: The

      • Tutor,

        St. John’s College.

    • Monica

      Lewis (“Anthony Trollope Among the Moderns: Reading Aloud in Britain

      • Teacher,

        St. Alban’s School

As external reader:

·
Aruni Mahapatra (Emory University PhD), (representations
of scholarship in nineteenth-century Odia fiction)

o
Assistant professor, University of Alabama

·
(at Princeton) Sean Gill (Princeton),
Victorian fiction serialization and ecocriticism

ABD:
David Tate (Rutgers), now Managing Editorial at Knopf/Vintage

post-doc: Simon Reader (Toronto
Ph.D.: “Thinking in Pieces: Victorian Notebooks
and Notation”; now associate professor, CUNY-Staten Island)