Teaching
Current courses
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Citation guidelines (Fall 2021)
Citation, quotation advice -
Handout: Teaching in Special Collections (feel free to re-use, with attribution) (Spring 2018)
Leah Price Special collections handout -
Methods in the History of Books and Reading (Fall 2019)
English 508
Past courses
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Theory and Practice of the Victorian Novel (Fall 2021)
English 256n -
How to Read a Book: Seminar (Spring 2017)
English 90HT -
The Nineteenth-Century Novel (Fall 2016)
English 151 -
How to Read a Book (Spring 2015)
English 90HT -
Sexing Victorian Fiction: Seminar (Spring 2013)
English 90SV Home -
Methods in Book History: Graduate Seminar (Fall 2012)
English 259 Home
Advisees
Ph.D. theses advised:
- 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)
- Vianna Iorio (“Spectacular Feeling: Gender and Affect in Victorian melodrama”; now teaching in PA juvenile justice system and at Eastern College)
- Courtney Krolczyk (Victorian illustration)
- Catie Piwinski (20th-c
US speculative fiction)
(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)