Associate Professor, Department of English, College of the Holy Cross

DEBRA GETTELMAN Associate Professor, Department of English, College of the Holy Cross 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610 [email protected]; (508) 793-2759

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross, 2013-present Assistant Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross, 2006-2013 Lecturer, History and Literature, Harvard University, 2005-06

EDUCATION Harvard University, Ph.D., English and American Literature and Language, November 2005 Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.M., 1996 Harvard College, A.B., History and Literature, magna cum laude, 1994

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS “The Novel and Its Readers.” In The Oxford Handbook to the Victorian Novel, ed. Lisa Rodensky, 111- 128. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. “The Psychology of Reading and the Victorian Novel.” Literature Compass 9.2 (2012): 199-212. “‘Those Who Idle Over Novels’: Victorian Critics and Post-Romantic Readers.” In A Return to the Common Reader, ed. Adelene Buckland and Beth Palmer (Ashgate, 2011). “‘Making Out’ Jane Eyre.” ELH 74.3 (Fall 2007): 557-581. “Reading Ahead in George Eliot.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 39 (Fall 2005): 25-47.

RECENT REVIEWS AND SHORT ARTICLES “Libraries” (3,500 words). Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, ed. Dino Felluga, Pamela Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes. Blackwell Publishing, 2015. Review of Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, ed. Caroline Levine and Mario Ortiz-Robles. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal 36.3 (2014): 294-297. Review of Sarah Winter, The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens. Victorian Studies 55 (Winter 2013): 317-19. Review of Adela Pinch, Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing. Review of English Studies (2012) 63 (261): 695-697.

SELECTED RECENT PRESENTATIONS “A Full Vision of the Historical Medium; or, Romola’s Boring Parts.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Asheville, North Carolina, March 2016. “Imagining ‘Otherwise’: Middlemarch’s Counterfictions.” Invited lecture at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Victorian Literature and Culture Seminar, April 2015. “‘That Imagined Otherwise’: Middlemarch’s Counterfictions.” North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference, London, Ontario, November 2014. “Austen Over Time.” Roundtable organizer and participant. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Conference, Boston University, August 2013. “Book Butterfly, Browser, English Reader.” Victorian Division Panel, “Victorian Attention.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Boston, January 2013. “Impossible Novel Readers and Barrett Browning’s Novel-Poem.” International Conference on Narrative, Las Vegas, March 2012.

SELECTED RECENT ACADEMIC SERVICE Conference Committee Member for 2014 Conference, International Society for the Study of Narrative Gettelman, p. 2

Conference Committee for 2013 Conference, Member, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism