Kate Flint: CV October 2018

KATE FLINT

Provost Professor of Art History and English

University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences Department of Art History THH 355 3501 Trousdale Parkway University Park Campus Los Angeles, California 90089-0351 [email protected]

Education

D.Phil. University of Oxford, 1985: “The English Critical Reception of Contemporary Painting, 1875-1910” (supervisors: Christopher Butler and Francis Haskell) M.A. History of European Art: Courtauld Institute, University of London, 1977: “Italian Art and Social Realism, 1860-1910” (supervisor Alan Bowness) B.A. English Language and Literature: University of Oxford, 1976

Academic Employment

Regular Appointments

July 2011 - Provost Professor of Art History and English, University of Southern California 2006 - June 2011 Professor II [now renamed Distinguished Professor], Department of English, Rutgers University 2001- 2006 Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University 1996-2001 Reader in Victorian and Modern English Literature, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford 1992-1996 University Lecturer in Victorian and Modern English Literature, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. 1985-1992 Fellow and Tutor in English, Mansfield College, Oxford 1980-1985 Lecturer, Department of English, University of Bristol

Honors, Grants, Prizes

2018 Faculty Fellow, USC Society of Fellows (2018-20)

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Phi Kappa Phi award, University of Southern California, for Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination. 2016 University of Southern California: Senior Raubenheimer Award for “outstanding performance in the areas of teaching, scholarship and service within the university.” 2016 American Council of Learned Societies: Fellow 2016 [June-August] Georgia O’Keeffe Research Center: Senior Fellow 2015-16 National Humanities Center: Fellow 2015-16 Huntington Library: 9 month Fellowship [declined] 2014 “‘More rapid than the lightning’s flash’: Photography, Suddenness, and the Afterlife of Romantic Illumination” awarded prize for best article of 2013 in the European Romantic Review. 2013 The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature chosen as a Choice academic title for 2013 2013 USC: Learning Environments Incentives Grant (for my Thematic Option “Writing and Photography” course) 2011 P.I., USC Dornsife 20:20 initiative, “Seeing 20:20 – The Visual Studies Research Institute” [$300,000 over 3 years: to run 2012-15]. 2008 (fall) Andrew W. Mellon fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino 2007-8 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, National Humanities Center 2007 Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University 2004 elected Fellow: English Association (UK) 2002 The British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for The Victorians and the Visual Imagination 2001 Reginald and Juanita Cook Fellowship, Bread Loaf School of English [teaching award]. 2001- cont. Supernumerary Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford 1998 Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University 1996 The British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 [awarded annually for the best work of literary scholarship by a woman] 1995-1996 Special Lectureship, University of Oxford 1988 British Academy Travel Award 1983 British Academy Travel Award 1977-1979 Senior Germaine Scholar, Brasenose College, 1977 Distinction for dissertation, Courtauld Institute 1976 1st Class, Honours School of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford 1975 Violet Vaughan Morgan prize for English literature, University of Oxford 1974 1st Class, Honour Moderations, English Language and Literature. Mrs Claude Beddington Prize for the best result in English Honour Moderations. 1973-1976 Scholar, St. Anne's College, Oxford

Temporary Appointments

2018-2021. International representative, Panel D [Arts and Humanities]: REF (Research

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Excellence Framework), U.K. July 2010 Seminar leader: National Humanities Center’s Summer Institute in Literary Studies (for junior faculty) on Jude the Obscure: see http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/siliterarystudies/hardy.htm Spr, 2004 Visiting Professor: Department of English and Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Princeton University 2000 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Alberta 1990-cont. Summer Faculty: Bread Loaf School of English 1981-1987 Summer Faculty, Open University

Publications a) Books

Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination, Oxford University Press, November 2017. 402 pp. and 140 plates.

The Transatlantic Indian 1776-1930 . Princeton University Press, 2009. 394 pp.

The Victorians and the Visual Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi + 427.

Elizabeth Gaskell, Northcote Press/British Council, 1995. xii + 74.

The Woman Reader 1837-1914, Oxford University Press, 1993. xii + 366.

Dickens. Harvester (New Readings series), 1986. xi + 159.

Work in Progress:

“Sensing the Material World 1850-1930” – old and new essays: estimated completion summer 2019.

“Reading the Book of Nature: Attentive Looking, Victorian Ecology and its contemporary legacies.” Estimated completion summer 2020.

I have been invited to write the 1870-1915 volume of the Oxford History of English Literature, and am currently preparing a formal proposal. Estimated completion for this late 2021.

b) Edited volumes and editions, etc.

From October 2018, I am co-editor (with Professor Clare Pettitt, Kings College, London) of the Cambridge University Press’s series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.

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Editor, Cambridge History of Victorian Literature [New Cambridge History of English Literature] Cambridge University Press, 2012, 741 pp. Paperback 2016.

“Memory and Materiality,” special edition of RaVon (Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net), 53 (February 2009). http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/

(with Barry Qualls): general editor of the Victorian volume of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature (Broadview Press), 2006; revised edn. Spring 2012

(With Howard Morphy): Culture, Landscape and the Environment. The Linacre Lectures (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2000

Virginia Woolf: Flush (O.U.P. World's Classics), 1998

Charles Dickens: Pictures from Italy (Penguin Classics, 1998)

D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow (O.U.P. World's Classics, 1997)

Victorian Love Stories (Oxford University Press), 1996

Essays and Studies 1996, on “Poetry and Politics” (Boydell and Brewer)

George and Weedon Grossmith: The Diary of A Nobody (O.U.P. World’s Classics), 1995.

Charles Dickens: Hard Times (Penguin Classics, 1995)

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (O.U.P. World's Classics), 1994

Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room (O.U.P. World's Classics), 1992.

(introduction reprinted in ed. Julia Briggs, Virginia Woolf. Introductions to the Major Works, Virago, 1994).

Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Story of a Modern Woman (Merlin Press), 1990

The Victorian Novelist: Social Problems and Social Change, Croom Helm (World and Word series), 1987, 276 pp. Reprinted, Taylor Wilson, 2016.

Impressionists in England: the Critical Reception, Routledge Kegan Paul, 1984, xvi + 390. Reprinted, Taylor Wilson, 2016.

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, (Longmans Study Texts), 1984 (revised 1988)

Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her? (O.U.P. World's Classics), 1982 b) Articles and Chapters

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“The Photographer’s Hand,” forthcoming in Nineteenth Century Manual Culture, eds. Peter Capuano and Sue Zemka, Ohio State University Press, 2019.

“Victorian Flash,” forthcoming in Journal of Victorian Culture, 2018.

“Transatlantic Modernity and Native Performance,” Cambridge History of Native American Literature. Forthcoming, 2018.

“Shoddy Trollope,” in ed. Frederik von Damme, The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2018.

“Bleak House,” in The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens, eds. John Jordan, Robert Patten, and Catherine Waters, Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Arrested Motion,” Victorian Studies 60:2 (winter 2018): 201-207.

“Representing Fireworks: Whistler’s Nocturne in Black and Gold,” 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (25), DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.797.

“The cultural history of the flashgun,” History of Photography, 41:4 (2017): 395-411.

“Photography, Palimpsests, and the Neo-Victorian,” in eds. Anna Maria Jones and Rebecca N. Mitchell, Drawing on the Victorians. The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts. Ohio University Press, 2017: 331-340.

“Emerging from the Background. Photographic conventions and the stereotype of the Indian,” in The World, the Text, and the Indian, ed. Scott Lyons, SUNY University Press, 2017: 183- 214.

“Victorian Roots: The Sense of the Past in Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse,” in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse,” ed. James Acheson, Palgrave Macmillan New Casebooks series, 2017: 46-59.

“Feeling, affect, melancholy, loss: Millais’ Autumn Leaves and the Siege of Sebastopol,” 19, winter 2016.

“Literature and Photography,” in 21st-Century Approaches to Literature: Late Victorian into Modern, 1880-1920, eds. Laura Marcus, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, and Michele Mendelssohn, Oxford University Press, 2016.

“Unspeakable Desires,” in the Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture, ed. Juliet John, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

“Surround, Background, and the Overlooked,” Victorian Studies, Fall 2015.

“The Novel and the Everyday,” in the Blackwell Companion to the English Novel, edited by Stephen Arata, J. Paul Hunter and Jennifer Wicke, Oxford, Blackwell, 2015.

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“The Canadian Transatlantic: Susanna Moodie and Pauline Johnson,” in Linda Hughes and Sarah Robbins, Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture. Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

“The Social Life of the Senses: The Assaults and Seductions of Modernity,” in A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire: 1800-1920, ed. Constance Classen, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

“The Aesthetics of Book Destruction,” in eds. Adam Smyth and Gillian Partington, Book Destruction in the West from the Medieval to the Contemporary, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“Edward Curtis and Pauline Johnson: place and modernity in the Pacific North-west,” in Restoring the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, The Kwakwaka’wakw, and Cinematic Documents of Encounter, ed. Brad Evans, University of Washington Press, 2014.

“‘More rapid than the lightning’s flash’: Photography, Suddenness, and the Afterlife of Romantic Illumination,” European Romantic Review, 2013.

“Sensational,” in the Victorian volume of the Cambridge History of Victorian Literature, 2012.

“Reading, Prohibition and Transgression,” reprinted from The Woman Reader: ed. Robert L. Patten, Dickens and Victorian Print Cultures. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2012, 249-258.

“Books in Photographs,” in The History of Reading, Vol.3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics, eds. S. S. Towheed and Rosalind Crone, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 156-174.

“Dickens and Victorian Visual Culture,” in Dickens in Context, eds. Sally Ledger and Holly Furneaux (Cambridge University Press), 2011, 148-157.

“Queer Trollope,” in The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope, eds. Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles, 2011, 99-112.

“Dickens, Mid-nineteenth-century Italy and Visual Modernity,” in Imagining Italy: Victorian Writers and Travellers, eds. Catherine Waters, Michael Hollington, and John Jordan, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, 195-215.

“Traveling Readers,” in Feeling Victorian Reading, ed. Rachel Ablow, University of Michigan Press, 2010, 27-46.

“Off-White Indians,” in Conflict and Difference in the C19th, eds. Dinah Birch and Mark Llewellyn, Palgrave, 2010, 66-79.

Response to critical forum [consisting of reviews of my book by Jonathan Elmer, Daniel Hack, and Celia Morgan] on The Transatlantic Indian, Victorian Studies, Spring 2010.

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“Virginia Woolf and Victorian Art,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, ed. Maggie Humm, 2010

“Photographic Narratives,” in Novel 42 (Fall 2009), 393-99

“‘The hour of pink twilights:’ lesbian poetics and the politics of queer encounter on the fin-de- siècle street,” Victorian Studies, summer 2009.

“Photographic Memory,” in RaVon [Romantic and Victorian Studies on the Net], 2009

“Is the Native an American? The place of Hiawatha in the Victorian Cultural Imagination, 1830-1860". The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange, ed. Meredith McGill: Rutgers University Press, 2008.

“Exhibiting America: The Native American and the Crystal Palace”, in Victorian Prisms, eds. James Buzard, Joseph Childers, and Eileen Gillooly, University of Virginia Press, 2007.

“Women and Reading”: survey review article, Signs Winter 2006, 511-536.

“Revisiting A Literature of Their Own.” Journal of Victorian Culture. Winter 2006. 289-296.

“The Materiality of Middlemarch” in New Essays on “Middlemarch” edited by Karen Chase, Oxford University Press, 2006, 65-86.

“Sensing Otherwise: Disability and Difference in Wilkie Collins’s Fiction,” The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins, ed. Jenny Bourne Taylor. 2006.

“Why ‘Victorian’?” Victorian Studies, winter 2005. 232-241.

“Reading Women: Afterword”, in Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present, eds. Jennifer Phegley and Janet Badia, University of Toronto Press, 2005.

“‘Seeing is Believing’? Visuality and Victorian Fiction”, in the Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel, Blackwell Publishing, ed. Francis O’Gorman, 2005, 25-46

“Sensuous Knowledge”, in Unmapped Countries: Biological Visions in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, ed. Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Anthem Nineteenth-Century Studies. London: Anthem Press, 2005.

“Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century”: survey article, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 44 (4) 2004. 873-945.

“Painting Memory”, Textual Practice 17(3), 2003, 527-542.

“Sounds of the City: Virginia Woolf and Modern Noise,” Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis,

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1830-1970. Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer, eds. Helen Small and Trudi Tate, Oxford University Press, 2003, 181-194

“Women Writers, Women’s Issues.” Cambridge Companion to the Brontës, ed. Heather Glen, CUP, 2002: 170-91. Chinese translation published: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2005.

“Reading Practices,” The Book History Reader, eds. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, Routledge, 2002, 316-323 (excerpted from The Woman Reader), 316-323

“Libri in viaggio: Diffusione, consumo e romanzo nell’Ottocento,” Il Romanzo. I. La cultura del romanzo, ed. Franco Moretti, Einaudi, 2001, 537-566.

“The Middle Novels: Chuzzlewit, Dombey, and Copperfield,” Cambridge Companion to Dickens, ed. John Jordan, CUP, 2001, 34-48

“George Eliot and Gender,” Cambridge Companion to George Eliot, ed. George Levine, CUP, 2001: 159-80.

“Dickens and the Native American,” in Dickens and the Children of Empire, ed. Wendy Jacobson, Macmillan, 2000: 94-104.

“The Victorian Novel and its Readers,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, ed. Deirdre David, Cambridge University Press, 2000: 17-36

“Literature, Music and the Theatre,” in The New Oxford History of the British Isles, 1815- 1901, ed. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford University Press, 2000:

“Counter-Historicism, Contact Zones, and Cultural History,” Victorian Literature and Culture 27 (2): 507-11.

“‘The Mote Within the Eye’: Dust and Victorian Vision,” in Rethinking Victorian Culture, eds. Juliet John and Alice Jenkins (Macmillan), 1999: 46-62

“Black Swans and the Black Country: identity and identification in black British fiction,” in ed. Jacqueline Lo, Crossing Cultures (Australian National University) 1999:

“Reflecting the Invisible: Edward Burne-Jones's The Mirror of Venus and James Sully's ‘The Indefinable in Art’” Art and Aestheticism, ed. Elizabeth Prettejohn, Manchester U.P., 1999:

“Reading the South Seas: Mary Russell Mitford’s Christina,” in ed. Suzan van Dyk, Met of zonder lauwerkrans?/Writing the History of Women’s Writing, Royal Academy of the Netherlands, 1999:

“Spectres of Sugar” in White and Deadly: Sugar and Colonialismr, ed. Pal Ahluwalia, Bill Ashcroft and Roger Knight, Nova, 1999:

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“Portraits of Women: On Display,” in Millais: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1999: 183-201

“The Victorian Horizon,” Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, 1998: 15-29.

“Looking Backwards? Contemporary British Fiction and the Past,” Unity in Diversity Revisited, ed. Barbara Korte, 1998

“Blood, bodies and The Lifted Veil,” Nineteenth Century Literature, 51 (4) 1997: 455-73.

“Plotting the Victorians: Narrative, Post-modernisms, and Contemporary Fiction,” in Writing and the Victorians, ed. J. B. Bullen, Longman, 1997: 286-305.

“Glaciers, Science, and the Imagination,” Textus, 1996: 43-64.

“Men, women, and the reading of Vanity Fair,” James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmore, eds., The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, Cambridge University Press, 1996: 246-62.

“Reading Uncommonly: Virginia Woolf and the practice of reading,” Yearbook of English Studies, 1996: 187-98

“Romance, Postmodernism and the Gothic: Fictional Challenges to Theories of Women and Reading, 1790-1830,” Literatur und Erfahrungswandel 1789-1830, eds. Rainer Schöwerling, Hartmut Steinecke und Günter Tiggesbäumker, 1996: 269-79.

“Blindness and Insight: Millais's The Blind Girl and the limits of representation,” Journal of Victorian Culture, 1996:

- with Kate Fulbrook, Ian McKillop, Jill Mann and Fred Price: “English and the Assessment Challenge,” Cambridge Quarterly, 25, 1996: 266-284

“As A Rule, I does not always mean I: Identity and the Victorian Woman Poet,” in The Making of the Modern Psyche, ed. Roy Porter, Routledge, 1997: 156-66.

“The American Girl and the New Woman,” for a special edition of Women's Writing, on the New Woman, ed. Sally Ledger, 1996: 217-230

“Origins, Species and Great Expectations” in Texts in Culture: “The Origin of Species”, Jeff Wallace and David Amigoni, eds. (Manchester University Press), 1995:

“Blood and Milk: the body and the state in late C19th Italian painting,” The Body Imaged, Marcia Pointon and Kathy Adler, eds., C.U.P., 1993: 109-23.

'"The pools, the depths, the dark places": Women, Censorship and the Body 1894-1931', Literature and Censorship, ed. Nigel Smith (Essays and Studies), 1993: 118-30.

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“Revising Jacob's Room: Virginia Woolf, Women and Language”: Review of English Studies, 1991: 361-79.

“Reading The Awakening Conscience Rightly,” in Pre-Raphaelites Re-viewed, ed. Marcia Pointon, Manchester U.P., 1989: 45-65

“Arthur Hughes as Illustrator for Children,” in Children and Their Books, ed. Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, O.U.P., 1989: 201-220.

“Nation, Art and Avant-Garde: Painting in Italy in the 1920s and 30s,” Modern Painters, 1988.

“The Woman Reader and the Opiate of Fiction 1855-1870,” in The Nineteenth Century British Novel, ed. Jeremy Hawthorn, Edward Arnold, 1986: 47-62.

“Virginia Woolf and the General Strike,” Essays in Criticism, 1986: 319-334.

“Moral judgement and the language of English art criticism 1870-1910,” Oxford Art Journal, 1984

“Fictional Suburbia,” Literature and History, 1982: 67-81 reprinted in Popular Fictions: Essays in Literature and History, edited by P. Humm, P. Stigant and P. Widdowson, 1986

“Art of the Fascist Regime,” Oxford Art Journal, 1982 c) Shorter Writings

“Talk About the Weather.” Public Books October 2016. http://www.publicbooks.org/multigenre/talk-about-the-weather

“An Introduction to To the Lighthouse.” British Library website. https://www.bl.uk/20th- century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-to-the-lighthouse# 2016.

“Breaking Down Walls at the Havana Biennale.” Public Books November 2015. http://www.publicbooks.org/artmedia/breaking-down-walls-at-the-havana-biennial

“Gilbert Scott, The Albert Memorial (1872)” in the “Key Victorian Texts” forum, Victorian Review, 35:1 (Spring 2009), 45-49.

Response piece to Teresa Brennan’s The Transmission of Affect, Woman, 2006.

“The Penknife of Peter Walsh”, Commentary, Times Literary Supplement, 5 February 2004

Entries on Dorothy Boulger, Lucy Soulsby, Mary Cholmondeley, Emily Morse Symonds, Wynford Dewhurst, Rhoda Broughton, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Wyke Bayliss (rev.) R. A. M. Stevenson (rev). New Dictionary of National Biography, 2004

“The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate,” in The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern

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Criticism and Theory, ed. Julian Wolfreys et al. Edinburgh University Press, 2002: 618-25.

Entries on “Social Problem Fiction,” “The Condition of England,” “The New Woman Novel,” and a range of New Women writers for the revised Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble, Oxford University Press, 2000

Entries on “Elizabeth Gaskell” and “Readers” to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, ed. Lorna Sage, 1999

“Mourning M.Paul: authority and identity in Villette,” English Review, 1998

Ninety annotated bibliographic entries on the Brontës and Elizabeth Gaskell for the EBRES CD-ROM bibliography of English Literature, 1997

“Drawing the Line: Lily, Painting and To the Lighthouse,” English Review, 1993

“Face to Face: An Interview with Tom Paulin,” English Review, 1993

“Critical Idiom: Gender,” English Review, 1993

“A Midsummer Night's Dream: the power of transformation,” in Critical Essays on “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” Longmans Literature Guides, 1991

“Pater Re-visioned:” introduction to the catalogue of the paintings of Karen Forsyth, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1991

“Colour in The Color Purple,” English Review,1990

Thirty entries on C19th writers in the Batsford Companion to Feminist Literature, 1990

“Significant otherness: sex, silence and Cleopatra” in Critical Essays on 'Antony and Cleopatra,” Longmans Literature Guides, 1990

“Carnival and cruelty in Twelfth Night,” in Critical Essays on “Twelfth Night,” Longmans Literature Guides, 1990

“The Philistine and the New Art Critic: J. A. Spender and D. S. McColl’s Debate of 1893,” Victorian Periodicals Review, 1988: 3-8.

“Reading the New Woman,” Browning Society Notes: Victorians and Love, vol.17, 1987/88: 55-63.

“The return of the repressed: passion and violence in Wuthering Heights” in Critical Essays on “Wuthering Heights,” Longmans Literature Guides, 1988

“The Philistine and the New: J.A. Spender on art and morality,” in Papers for the Millions, ed. Joel Wiener, Greenwood Press, 1988

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“Madness and melancholy in Hamlet” in Critical Essays on “Hamlet,” Longmans Literature Guides, 1988

“The Philistine and the Art Critic: D.S. MacColl's debate with J. A. Spender,” Victorian Periodicals Review, spring 1988

“Argument” (a justification of some aspects of feminist criticism), English, 1983: 289-293.

“Hardy: Dislocation and Discontinuity:” review article, English,1983

“The Criticism of Contemporary Poetry,” Present Tense, 1982

“Suppressed Processes, Unavowed Reference,” review article on Henry James, English, 1981

“At Large in Nobody's London,” review article on George Gissing, English, 1979

“Painting into Literature,” Arts Review Year Book, 1979

e) Reviews

Over 80 reviews for Times Literary Supplement Times Higher Education Supplement Times Educational Supplement The Guardian Victorian Studies British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies Review of English Studies Notes and Queries Nineteenth-Century Literature Sociological Review Library Italian Studies Textual Practice Modern Languages Review Bullán Australasian Victorian Studies Annual British Journal of Aesthetics Biography f) Other

Oxford Chronology of English Literature: adviser, C19th women writers of fiction

Editor, Open University series, Gender in Writing, 1984-1992

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Presenter of, and contributor to numerous BBC radio programmes from 1982 – to date, including Night Waves, Kaleidoscope, and Women’s Hour; contributions to BBC television arts programmes. Mid-1990s: presenter and interviewer for Radio 3's Poet of the Month series.

Contributions to NPR and PBS radio and television (from defending Art History after Barack Obama’s comments on the subject to appearing on a program about Downton Abbey).

Historical advisor (on C19th photography and C19th Oxford) for a film about to go into production with OddLot Entertainment, LA.

Comments and interviews on BBC national and local radio and television.

Conferences, Lectures, Presentations

Panel speaker, “Lichen, Climate Change, and Ecological Aesthetics” in the Historians of British Art’s panel “Climate Change and British Art,” College Art Association, NYC, February 15th 2019.

Keynote speaker, “Ruskin and Lichen,” Ruskin and the Environment conference, Oxford University, February 6th 2019.

Invited seminar speaker, “The importance of ‘bits of lichen and a sprig of moss’ in Victorian Culture,” Cambridge University, November 29th 2019.

Plenary panel speaker, “ ‘Victorian?’ The literary anthology and the problem of periodization” [panel on “Editing and Teaching the Literary Anthology”] Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers annual conference, Nashville, November 2nd 2018.

Panel speaker, “Tree stumps and decaying trunks: Looking out from Mark Dion’s greenhouse,” annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, St Petersburg, Florida: October 14th 2018.

Keynote lecture, “Surfaces of trees and stones: Victorian lichen and moss,” annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English, Bonn University, Germany: September 25th 2018

Keynote lecture, “Composing, reading, and decomposing the Victorian Book of Nature.” “Books, Readers, and Reading: 250 Years of The Leeds Library” conference, Leeds, UK: September 22nd 2018

Invited colloquium presenter and participant, “Millais’ Idyll of 1745,” Midsummer Idyll symposium, Courtauld Institute of Art, London: 21st June 2018 (via Skype).

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Invited colloquium presenter and participant, “Painting Light: Millais’ Dew-Drenched Furze,” Mellon funded seminar series on religion and the modern/secular university, CRASSH, Cambridge University, 24th May 2018.

Invited talk, “Permeability, Agency, and the Technical History of Photography,” University of London Media History Seminar, Senate House, 8th February 2018.

Panel Speaker, “The Photographer’s Hand,” Modern Languages Association Convention, New York City, 7th January 2018.

Panel Speaker, “Flash Photography and the Idea of the Event,” Modern Languages Association Convention, New York City, 5th January 2018.

Invited talk, “Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination,” Google Headquarters, London: 30th November 2017.

Invited talk, “Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination,” Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and History and Theory of Photography Research Centre. London University, 29th November 2017.

Invited talk, “Attentive Looking: Victorian Ecology and the Observation of the Everyday,” Victorian Research Seminar, Oxford University, 27th November 2017.

Panel Speaker, “Snowflakes,” North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference, Banff, Canada, 17th November 2017

Keynote lecture, “Dandelions,” British Association for Victorian Studies annual conference, Lincoln UK, 25th August 2017.

Panel speaker, “Fireflies,” NAVSA/AVSA supernumerary conference, La Pietra, Florence, 17th May 2017.

Plenary speaker, “Space, scale and imagination: Robert Dudley’s paintings of the Atlantic Cable,” Coding and Representation: international conference held by the King’s College/Courtauld “Scrambled Messages” group, Courtauld Institute of Art, 21st January 2017.

Panel speaker, “What’s funny about flash photography?” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, 5th November 2016.

Presidential plenary panel, “Victorian Consumption,” British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference, Cardiff, 2nd September 2016.

Panel speaker, “Shoddy: Consumption, Recycling, and the Overlooked,” British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference, 1st September 2016.

Public lecture, “The Modernity of Flash,” Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, Santa Fe NM, 16 August 2016.

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Public lecture, “Flash!” New Mexico Museum of Art, 20 July 2016

Plenary panel speaker. “Siegfried Kracauer, “On Photography.” 1928! conference, National Humanities Center. 20th April 2016.

Invited speaker. “Flash! Photography, Writing, and Sudden Illumination.” Department of Art History, Duke University. March 28th 2016.

Keynote speaker. “Seaweed.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Conference, Asheville, March 11th 2016.

Invited Speaker. “Millais's Autumn Leaves - art, feeling, and the Siege of Sebastopol.” C19th Studies Seminar. Northwestern University. February 16th 2016.

Invited speaker. “Flash! Photography, Writing, and Sudden Illumination.” Department of Art History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. January 21st 2016.

Panel speaker. “Fire and Flash.” Modern Languages Association Convention, Austin, January 2016.

Plenary panel speaker: “How Do We Read a Painting Now?” Mellon Futures event, Duke University, October 20th 2015

Plenary panel speaker, “Shoddy Trollope,” Trollope Bi-Centenary conference, Leuven, Belgium, September 2015

Keynote lecture: “Loving London,” London in Love conference, July 2015

Keynote lecture: “Feeling, affect, melancholy, loss: Millais’ Autumn Leaves and the Siege of Sevastopol,” Arts and Feeling conference, Birkbeck College, London, July 2015

Plenary speaker and judge: Book Prize panel, North American Victorian Studies Association conference, Hawaii, July 2015

Invited paper: “Internationalism and Art: Rosa Bonheur’s Horse Fair,” North American Victorian Studies Association conference, Hawaii, July 2015.

Keynote lecture: “The Biography of the Flash Lamp,” Rethinking Early Photography conference, Lincoln, England, June 2015

Invited paper, “Pavement artists,” George Washington University, April 2015.

Invited paper, “Light Skinned: Flash Photography and the Representation of Race,” George Washington University, April 2015.

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“Surround, background and the overlooked,” North American Victorian Studies Conference, London ON, November 2014.

Keynote Speaker, “Seaweed,” Coastal Cultures conference, Oxford University, March 2014

Invited paper, “Intrusive Light: Flash Photography and Documentary Work,” Birkbeck Centre for the History and Theory of Photography, London University, November 2013

Invited speaker, “Venice Observed: Tourism, Art, and the Photographic Aesthetic, 1845-1906,” The Global and the Local conference, Venice, Italy, June 2013

Speaker on opening Plenary Panel, “The State of the Field,” The Global and the Local conference, Venice, Italy, June 2013

Plenary speaker, "Making the Indian Ordinary: Transatlantic Familiarization 1887-1915," Globalizing the Word conference, University of Michigan, March 2013

Invited paper, “Flash!” Brigham Young University, March 2013

Invited paper, “Flash Photography and African-American Visibility,” College Art Association, New York, February 2013

Invited paper: “Ordinariness and Attention,” Princeton/Paris symposium on Democracy and the Novel: October 2012.

Invited paper: “Ordinary Objects,” North American Victorian Studies Association conference, Madison, WI, September 2012.

Keynote lecture: “Pictures that travel: the case of Rosa Bonheur,” University of Michigan C18th and C19th graduate student conference, September 2012.

Keynote lecture, “ ‘More rapid than the lightning’s flash,’ Photography, illumination, and the legacy of the romantic flash,” 20th Annual North American Society for Studies in Romanticism Conference in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 15-19 August 2012.

Keynote lecture, “Dickens and the Art of the Streets,” Dickens and the Visual Imagination Conference (Paul Mellon Foundation/University of Surrey), July 2012.

Discussant, Tourism and Visual Culture panel, College Art Association conference, Los Angeles, February 2012

Invited talk, “Flash Photography, Weegee, and Technological Innovation,” MOCA, Los Angeles, February 2012.

“Pavement Artists,” North American Victorian Studies Association conference, Vanderbilt University, November 2011.

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“The Flash Lamp,” Objects of Knowledge Series, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate/Academy for Polymathic Study, University of Southern California, October 2011

Keynote lecture, “The Aesthetics of Book Destruction,” Book Destruction conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London, April 2011

Invited lecture, “ ‘Bottled Lightning’: Flash Photography and the Languages of Transatlantic Modernity,” Rice University, Humanities Center, February 2011

Keynote lecture: “Neo-Victorian photography,” Australasian Victorian Studies Association, Adelaide, Australia, February 2011

Annual Richard Hoggart lecture, “ ‘Bottled Lightning’: Flash Photography and the Languages of Modernity,” Goldsmiths College, London, November 2010

Invited lecture, “The Transatlantic Indian,” to the Friends of the American Museum in England, New York, October 2010

Invited public lecture: “Flashes across the sea: photography and the transatlantic,” Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, October 2010

Invited seminar, “Transatlantic Studies: the case of Susanna Moodie,” Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, October 2010

Invited public lecture: “Books in photographs,” Vanderbilt University, October 2010

2010 Barber Lecture, on “Flashes of modernity: photography and surprising light,” University of Minnesota-Morris, October 2010

Keynote lecture, “Neo-Victorian Photography,” Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, April 2010.

Keynote lecture, “Emotional baggage: reading, affect, and the C19th woman traveler,” British C18th and C19th Writers Conference, Texas A&M, April 2010.

Opening plenary panel, “The State and Stakes of Literary Study,” National Humanities Center, March 2010

Invited lecture, “ ‘Illuminated in a flash, fixed forever:' photography, shocks of light, and the language of modernity." University of Southern California, March 2010.

“Telling It to Strangers: Anger, Evasion, and Form in Postwar Feminist Fiction,” invited paper in session on “The Death of the Heart”? Emotion, Affect, and Postwar Literature, MLA, Philadelphia, December 2009.

Inaugural lecture, University of York Center of Modern Studies, “Flashes of Violence: Photography, Shock, and Modernity,” October 2009.

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“Dressing Up:” invited paper in special session on “Yesterday,” North American Studies Association/British Association for Victorian Studies, Cambridge, England, July 2009.

Invited paper, “The Apparatus of the Dark:” Lightning and the early history of flash photography,” University of Virginia, Department of English, March 2009.

Keynote lecture, “Traveling readers,” Reading in the Age of Gladstone conference, organized by Liverpool University, St Deiniol’s, Hawarden, Wales, January 2009.

Plenary lecture, “Photography, Modernity, and the American Indian in Britain, 1840-1906”, Images of the American Indian, National Gallery of Art/Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, December 2008

Invited panel speaker, “Throwing Light on the Moment: Flash Photography and Arresting Narratives,” North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference, November 2008.

Panel organizer, “Reading/the visual,” North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference, November 2008.

Plenary panel talk, “Edward Curtis, place, and modernity,” Moving Pictures: Indigenous Peoples, the celluloid archive, and the work of Edward S. Curtis conference, Rutgers, November 2008

Keynote lecture, “‘The hour of pink twilights:’ lesbian poetics and the politics of queer encounter on the fin-de-siècle street,” Century’s End Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast, September 2008

Keynote lecture, “Books in Photographs,” Evidence of Reading/Reading the Evidence conference, Institute of English Studies, July 2008

Keynote lecture, “America, the Atlantic, and the Transatlantic Indian,” The Idea of America, 1785-1914 conference, Institute of English Studies, London, June 2008

Invited lecture, “Modernity, Britain, and the Native American,” University of North Carolina, Greensboro, April 2008

Invited seminar presentation: “Atlantic/Transatlantic,” University of North Carolina, Greensboro, April 2008

Invited lecture in anniversary series “IMPACTS: feminist theory and British literary studies,” “ ‘The hour of pink twilights:’ The politics of queer encounter on the fin-de-siècle street,” University of Minnesota, March 2008

Invited lecture, “Modernity, Victorian Britain, and the Native American,” University of Maryland, College Park, February 2008

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Panel organizer, “Visual Culture and Fictional Form,”, and speaker on “ ‘Between the Novel and the Film:’ The Fictions of Contemporary Narrative Photography,” Theories of the Novel Now conference, Brown University, November 2007

Invited lecture, “Modernity and the Native American in Victorian Britain,” North Carolina State University, November 2007

Invited lecture, “Flash! Surprising Illumination and the C19th,” University of New Mexico, November 2007

Panel organizer “Materiality and memory,” (3 sessions), and speaker on “Photographic memory,” North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference, Victoria BC, October 2007

Public lecture, “Fictional Photographers,” National Humanities Center, October 2007.

Annual graduate studies lecture, “Modernity, the Victorians, and the Native American,” Rutgers University, Department of English, September 2007.

Invited lecture, “Writing and Photography,” Bread Loaf School of English, Santa Fe, NM, July 2007.

Keynote address: “Dickens, mid-Victorian Italy, and Visual Modernity,” Dickens, Italy, and Victorian Culture conference, Genoa, Italy, June 2007.

Invited lecture, “Modernity, Britain, and the Native American,” Kings College, London, October 2006

Seminar presentation, “Indians and Missionaries,” Leverhulme Research Group, Cambridge University, October 2006

Plenary speaker, “Surprising illumination and the C19th: lightning, flash photography, and the rhetoric of the sublime,” Reproductions conference, Temple University, October 2006 (respondent: Alan Trachtenberg)

Keynote address, “Flash!” The Verbal and the Visual in C19th Culture conference, London, June 2006

Plenary speaker, “Sex traffic, sex workers, and globalization,” Radigals conference, Rutgers University, March 2006

Panel speaker, “White Indians,” MLA December 2005

2005 Bocock Lecture: “In the Mind’s Eye: George Eliot, “The Lifted Veil” and mid-Victorian Visual Culture,” Hartwick College, NY, April 2005

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Panel Chair, Women/Art/Politics conference: Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Princeton University, April 2005 invited speaker, Department of English: “Modernity, Britain, and the Native American,” University of Southern California, November 2004 invited speaker, graduate seminar in American Studies: “Modernity, Britain, and the Native American”, University of New Mexico, November 2004

Keynote speaker, “Indian Frontiers”, North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference, Toronto, October 2004 invited speaker, graduate seminar: “Modernity, Britain, and the Native American”, Université de Montréal, September 2004

Keynote address, “‘The General Stream of Sensation’: The Senses, Sensation, and Middlemarch”, Victorian Sensations: British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, Keele University, September 2004

Keynote address, “Modernity, Britain, and the Native American”, Crosstown Traffic: Anglo- America Cultural Exchange since 1865 conference, Warwick, July 2004 (Royal Historical Society/North American Conference on British Studies/British Association for American Studies)

Plenary speaker, “Sensuous Knowledge”, Biology, Literature and Culture in the Victorian Period, Bamberg, Germany, May 2004.

Chair, “Narcissus and Theory”, open house for prospective graduate students, Rutgers University, April 2004

“Modernity and the Native American”: Invited lecture, graduate seminar, Department of English, Princeton University, March 2004.

“Native Americas and Victorian Britain”: Invited lecture, inter-disciplinary graduate seminar, Royal Holloway College, London: November 2003.

“Modernity and the Native American”: Invited lecture, graduate seminar, Department of English, Reading University, England: November 2003.

“Peter Walsh’s Penknife”, plenary speaker: “Making Waves”: conference in honour of Professor Dame Gillian Beer, Cambridge University, 4 July 2003

“Sounds of the City: Virginia Woolf and Modern Sound”, invited speaker at Feminist Seminar, Dartmouth College, 20 February 2003

“The Transatlantic Indian, 1840-1865", invited lecture, Dartmouth College, 19 February 2003

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“The Transatlantic Indian in the Victorian cultural imagination”, invited lecture, University of Notre Dame, 20 November 2002

“The Transatlantic Indian, 1840-1865", invited lecture, University of Florida, 26 October, 2002

‘Is the Native an American? Poetry, Nationhood and Indigeneity in the Victorian Cultural Imagination, 1830-1860', plenary speaker, The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange, Rutgers University, 28 September 2002

‘The Transatlantic Indian in the Nineteenth Century’, invited lecture, Department of English, Harvard University, 30 April 2002 invited member of plenary panel on Knowledge and the Victorians, North Eastern Victorian Studies Association, Kingston, Ontario, 20 April 2002

‘Sensuous Knowledge’, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association annual conference, George Mason University, 12 April 2002 member of Faculty panel discussing Ben Brown’s “Thing Theory”, Open House for Prospective Graduate Students, Rutgers University, 1 April 2002

“The Old World and the New: Victorian Women Writers and the Native American”, invited lecture, Department of English, Yale University, 22 February 2002

“ ‘Why has my white sister visited the wigwam of her red brethren?’ British Victorian Women Writers and Native Americans’, Invited speaker, Cultural History Seminar, Cambridge University, 1 February 2002

“Exhibiting America”’: invited speaker, Locating the Victorians conference, London, 14 July 2001

“Exhibiting America in 1851", plenary speaker, The Great Exhibition and its Legacies, CUNY, 4 May 2001

“Our America? Native Americans and the Victorian Cultural Imagination”, keynote address: conference on America and England in the C19th, University College, Worcester, 28 April 2001

“ ‘Why has my white sister visited the wigwam of her red brethren?’ British Victorian Women Writers and Native Americans”, Invited speaker, English Faculty Graduate Seminar, Oxford, 25 January 2001

Chair of “Reading Women 1", Modern Languages Association Convention, December 2000

“The Amazonian Indian and Victorian Literature”, plenary speaker: 3rd Amazonia Conference, Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies, December 2000

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“Representing the Invisible”, Keynote address: Victorian Literature and the Visual Arts Conference, University of Hertfordshire, November 2000

“Women’s Eyes: Feminism and Art Criticism”, Public Lecture, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’s Millennial Lecture Series, November 2000

“Traveling Texts: reading, consumption and diffusion in the C19th”, plenary speaker: inaugural day of the Stanford Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University, October 2000

“The Victorians and the Native American”, Invited speaker, Centre for British Studies, Berlin, May 2000

“Buffalo Bill in London”, Public lecture, Museum of Edmonton, March 2000

“Our America I: The Victorians and Native Americans”, University of Alberta, Edmonton, March 2000

“Our America II: Adventure, Imperialism and Amazonian Indians”, University of Alberta, Edmonton, March 2000

“The Victorian Horizon”, University of Alberta, Edmonton, March 2000

“ ‘Why has my white sister visited the wigwam of her red brethren?’ British Victorian Women Writers and Native Americans’, Invited speaker, University of Hull, November 1999

“ ‘Why has my white sister visited the wigwam of her red brethren?’ British Victorian Women Writers and Native Americans’, Invited speaker, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, November 1999

“Victorian Women Writers and the Native American”, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference, Albuquerque, September 1999

“Displaying Women: Millais’s Portraits”, Public lecture, National Portrait Gallery, May 1999

“America and Imperialism: The Wild West Show in England”, Colonial and Post-colonial symposium, Oxford Brookes University, June 1999

“Spectres of Sugar”, Slavery conference, Maison Francaise, Oxford, December 1998 “Reading the South Seas: Mary Russell Mitford’s Christina”, Writing the History of Women’s Writing conference: Royal Academy of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, September 1998

“The Seen and the Unseen: Victorian Vision, Illusion and Hallucination”, Plenary lecture, ‘Lost Worlds and Mad Elephants: an International Conference on Science and Literature’, University of Leipzig, April 1998

“Contact Zones: The Victorians and the Native American/The Native American and the Victorians”, Faculty of Arts Research Institute seminar, University of Wollongong, March

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1998

“The Seen and the Unseen: Victorian Vision and Hallucination”, Invited speaker, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, March 1998

“The Native American and the Victorian Cultural Imagination”, Work in Progress seminar, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, March 1998

“The Victorians and the Native American”, Invited speaker, Department of English, University of Melbourne, March 1998

“Black Swans and the Black Country: identity, identification and black British writing”, Keynote address, Crossing Cultures conference, Australian National University, February 1998

“The Victorian Horizon”, Keynote address, Australasian Victorian Studies Association annual conference, University of New England, February 1998

“The Victorian Horizon”, Invited speaker, Faculty of History seminar series, Australian National University, February 1998

“Composite histories: national identity and contemporary English fiction”, Invited speaker, Goldsmith's College, London, October 1997

“Identity and Nationhood in Contemporary British Fiction”, ‘Edges of English’ symposium, University of New South Wales, September 1997

“Looking Backwards? Contemporary British Fiction”, Plenary address, Unity in Diversity Revisited conference, Politische Akademie Biggesee, Germany, May 1997

“Observing otherness: Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines”, Invited speaker, University of Salerno, May 1997

“Woolf, women and animals”, Invited speaker, University of Salerno, May 1997

“Woolf's Menagerie”: Plenary lecture, Virginia Woolf conference, University of Turin, December 1996

“ ‘The Mote Within the Eye’: Dust and the instability of vision”, Invited speaker, Keele University, November 1996

“The Dialectics of Dust”, Invited speaker, University of Cape Town, September 1996

“Dickens and the Native American”, Dickens, Empire and Children Conference, Rhodes University (under the auspices of the Dickens Project), September 1996

“ ‘The Mote Within the Eye’: Dust and the instability of vision”, Plenary lecture: Victorian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century, University of Liverpool, September 1996

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“The Victorians and the Native American”: Plenary speaker, Literature in History/History in Literature conference, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, April 1996

“Reflecting the Invisible: Edward Burne-Jones's The Mirror of Venus and James Sully's 'The Indefinable in Art'”, Association of Art Historians Conference, Newcastle, April 1996

“Blindness and Insight: Vision and Visuality in the 1850", Plenary speaker, Victorian Study weekend, University of Wales, Lampeter, March 1996

“Blindness and Insight: Millais’s The Blind Girl and Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh”, Sheffield University, March 1996

“ Blindness and Insight: Vision and Visuality in the 1850s”, Invited speaker, Birkbeck College, University of London, December 1995

“Blindness and Insight: Vision and Visuality in the 1850s”, Invited speaker, Bristol University, November 1995

“Women, modernism, and re-writing the canon”, Plenary speaker, Understanding Modernism conference, Kellogg College, Oxford, October 1995

“Situating the woman reader: gothic, postmodernism and The Ruins of Ruthvale Abbey”, SHARP annual conference, Edinburgh, June 1995

“I does not always mean I: Identity and the Victorian Woman Poet”, Institute of Contemporary Arts symposium, March 1995

Plenary chair, Whistler conference, Tate Gallery, November 1994

“Blood, boundaries, and The Lifted Veil”, Invited speaker, Chester College of Further Education, April 1994 . “The Limits of Visibility: Millais' The Blind Girl”, Association of Art Historians annual conference, Birmingham, April 1994

“History and Post-modernism in contemporary fiction”, Anglo-Russian conference, University of Oxford, April 1994

“The Prison of Visibility: problems of representation in mid-C19th culture”, Plenary speaker, Conférence de la Société d'Etudes Victoriennes et Edouardiennes, Paris, March 1994

“The aesthetic theories of Roger Fry and Clive Bell”, Invited speaker, Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, November 1993

“Blood, boundaries, transfusions and George Eliot's The Lifted Veil”, Invited speaker, Cambridge University, November 1993

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“Sickert as Critic”, Public lecture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, October 1993

“Reason, Politics and Postmodernism: fictional challenges to early C19th theories of reading”, History of the Book conference, University of Paderborn, June 1993

“Glacial Metaphors: science and imagination in the Victorian Alps”, International Comparative Literature Association (theory division) annual conference, London, April 1993

“The Reader and Vanity Fair”, Plenary speaker, British Literature conference, Ecole Normale Supérieur, Paris, March 1993

“The C19th Woman reader: theories and approaches”, Invited speaker, Edinburgh University, February 1993

“Virginia Woolf and Reading”, Virginia Woolf Centenary conference, Oxford, September 1992

“Blood, Boundaries and The Lifted Veil”, Invited speaker, University of North London, March 1992

“Picturing the C19th Woman Reader”: History and Practice of Reading conference, Cambridge University, March 1992

“Death by Water: feminine endings and The Mill on the Floss”, Invited speaker, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, March 1991

“Displaying Egypt: Cleopatra and the C19th Stage”, Invited speaker, University of Cambridge, May 1991

“Body, Mind and Text: women, reading and theory in nineteenth century culture”, Invited speaker, Manchester Polytechnic, November 1991

“Glaciers and the Imagination in the nineteenth century”, Invited speaker, University of East Anglia, November 1991

“Body, Mind and Text: the Victorian Woman Reader”, Invited speaker, Collège d'anglicistes romands, Lausanne, December 1990

“Diagnosis and Treatment: Medical Discourse and Woman's Body in Italian Painting of the 1890s”, The Body in Representation conference, London, September 1990

“Victorian women readers: theories and practices”, Invited speaker, University of York, May 1990

"Women and reading in the C19th”, Invited speaker, Leeds University, November 1989

“Novel into Film: A Room with a View”, Invited speaker, Wroxton College, November 1989

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“Italian Art and Politics: 1890-1914", Invited speaker, Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, October 1989

“The C19th Woman Reader: Problems of approach”, Invited speaker, Birmingham University, October 1989

“Self-reflection: feminist art criticism and women's painting in England between the wars”, Invited speaker, University of Sussex, March 1989

“Reading Novels on Soft Sofas: The C19th Woman Reader”, Invited speaker, University of Konstanz, December 1988

“Reading The Awakening Conscience ‘Rightly’”, Invited speaker, Leicester University, November 1988

“Reading The Awakening Conscience ‘Rightly’”, Invited speaker, North London Polytechnic, November 1988

“Reading Novels on Soft Sofas: The C19th Woman Reader”, Invited speaker, Middlesex Polytechnic, November 1988

“Self-reflection: feminist art criticism and women's painting in England between the wars”, Women and the Visual Arts: Annual Art Lectures, University of Bristol, November 1988

“Reading The Awakening Conscience ‘Rightly’”, Cultural History Seminar, Oxford University, June 1988

“Reading The Awakening Conscience ‘Rightly’”, Invited speaker, Reading University, May 1988

“Reading Novels on Soft Sofas: The C19th Woman Reader”, Invited speaker, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, May 1988

“Great Expectations and The Origin of Species”, Invited speaker, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, May 1988

“Reading Novels on Soft Sofas: The C19th Woman Reader”, Invited speaker, Princeton University, March 1988

“Reading Novels on Soft Sofas: The C19th Woman Reader”, Invited speaker, California State University, Sacramento, March 1988

“Reading the New Woman: women readers and the 1890s”, Invited speaker, California Institute of Technology, March 1988

“Reading The Awakening Conscience ‘Rightly’”, Invited speaker, University of California,

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Riverside, March 1988

“Reading The Awakening Conscience ‘Rightly’”, Invited speaker, Courtauld Institute of Art, February 1988

“The C18th woman reader”, Invited speaker, University of London summer school, July 1987

“Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf: Our Women and Jacob's Room”, Virginia Woolf Society Conference, Sussex University, June 1987

“Madonnas and Marble: Middlemarch and the Visual Arts”, Invited speaker, University of Ulster, May 1987

“Reading the New Woman”, Invited speaker, Sheffield University, April 1987

“Reading the New Woman”, Browning Society conference on Victorians and Love, King's College, London, March 1987

“Women and reading: theoretical perspectives”, Invited speaker, Southampton University, December 1986

“The Philistine and the New: J.A. Spender and D.S.MacColl”, Research Society in Victorian Periodicals annual conference, New York, November 1986

“Conservative landscapes: John Clare and John Constable”, Invited speaker, Trinity College, Cambridge, November 1986

“Feminist literary history”: Thinking the Future Conference, University of Warwick, May 1986

“D.S. MacColl as art critic”, Invited speaker, Department of Art History, University of Leeds, November 1985

“Virginia Woolf and the General Strike”, Invited speaker, University of Liverpool, October 1985

“The Opiate of Fiction: women and reading in the 1860s”, Higher Education Teachers of English conference, Liverpool, March 1985

“English Critical Responses to Impressionism”, Invited speaker, University of Lampeter, March 1981

Professional and University Service

University of Southern California

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Fall 2017 - Committee member, Dornsife Committee on Academic Promotion and Tenure. Chair: search committee in Global Anglophone Literature, Department of English Committee member, search committee on African/African Diaspora art history, Department of Art History Elected member: Executive Committee, Department of English Elected member: Merit review committee, Department of Art History Chair: FEC for Devin Griffiths, Department of English Member: Susanna Berger, 2nd year review committee, Department of Art History Fall 2013 – Summer 2015 General Education Committee: Chair of the Arts section Committee on Academic Policies and Procedures Public Art Committee 2012-13 Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of English 2012-2015 Curriculum Committee (Arts and Humanities sub-committee) 2013 - to date Executive Committee, Visual Studies Studies Research Institute Fall 2012 – 2014 Graduate School Advisory Council [admissions sub-committee; Teaching Assistants sub committee] 2012 Mentor for Devin Griffiths, Assistant Professor, Department of English 2012-13 Graduate Committee, Department of English Director, Visual Studies Research Institute Spring 2012 - Summer 2015 Chair, Department of Art History 2011-13 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellows Selection Committee Director, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate 2011-12 Chair, Search Committee (long C18th/C19th position), Department of English Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of English Mentor for Julia Lee, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of English Advisory Committee, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Spring 2011 Reader, Post-doctoral Fellowship committee, Department of English Member, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate committee

Rutgers University

2010-2011 Placement Committee, Department of English 2009 – 2010 Chair of Department of English Committee on the Future of the School of Arts and Science 2009 (spring) Executive Committee, Department of English Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of English

[fall 2007, spring 2008, fall 2008: on leave]

2006-7 Acting Chair of Department of English

2005-6 Executive Committee, Department of English Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of English Faculty of Arts and Science Appointment and Promotions Chair, 19th Century Search Committee, Department of English

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Mellon Senior Search Committee, Department of English Placement Committee, Department of English

2003-4 Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English Executive Committee, Department of English Faculty of Arts and Science Appointments and Promotions Committee Placement Committee, Department of English Graduate Program Committee, Department of English Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of English Graduate Review Committee, Department of English Search committee: World Anglophone Literatures, Department of English 2002-3 [on leave] Executive Committee, Department of English 2001-2 Faculty of Arts and Science Appointment and Promotions Committee Executive Committee, Department of English Advising Committee, Department of English Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of English

Oxford University

Positions held included:

Chair, Board of the Faculty of English Literature and Language, 1999-2001 Deputy Chair, Board of the Faculty of English Literature and Language, 1997-99 Humanities Board, 1999-2001

Longstanding member of the Faculty of English’s Graduate Studies Committee, the Undergraduate Studies Committee, and the Joint Committee which liases between the Faculty and undergraduates. Represented the Faculty on the University’s Committee for the History of Art, and sat on numerous other Faculty committees and University Working Parties. Senior Tutor at Linacre College 1997-1999 (taking overall responsibility for the pastoral and academic side of this graduate College): sat on its Academic Committee and the College’s Governing Body, 1992-2001 Governing Body: Mansfield College, 1986-1992 Tutor for Women in both Mansfield College and Linacre College; Sexual Harassment Officer, Linacre College. Substantial experience of college finance committees, and fund-raising committees

Other professional activities

Fellowship Selection Committee, National Humanities Center, 2018

President Elect (will be President 2019-21), North American Victorian Studies Association, 2017-2019

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Organizing committee, North American Victorian Studies Association conference, Pasadena, October 2013

Member of the MLA Committee for the Status of Women in the Profession, 2012-15

Member of Delegate Assembly, Modern Languages Association, 2012-16

Final selection committee, ACLS New Faculty Fellows, 2012

Elected president, Society for Novel Studies, 2010-14

Elected member, Advisory Board, North American Victorian Studies Association, 2010-13

Elected member, Modern Languages Association Divisional Committee, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Literature, 2010-15

Reader of fellowship applications, National Humanities Center, 2008 – to date

Fellowship selection committee, National Humanities Center, 2009

Final panel, ACLS/Mellon early career Fellowship committee, March 2008 – 2012

Departmental Review Committee, University of British Columbia, March 2007

Member of the Comité d’Evaluation, Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture, February, 2007

Promotion and Tenure reviews (for departments of English, History, Art History, and Comparative Literature)

Harvard University Yale University Princeton University University of Pennsylvania University of Chicago University of California: Berkeley University of California: Davis Brown University University of Virginia New York University Duke University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick) Purdue University Boston University University of Madison-Wisconsin University of Michigan University of Michigan-Dearborn

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University of Utah Pennsylvania State University University of Toronto University of Missouri University of Notre Dame William and Mary College Tufts University Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Louisiana State University Queens College, CUNY University of New Mexico Florida State University University of Mississippi Washington University University of Nevada, Reno Middlebury College Simon Fraser University Scripps College California Institute of Technology Brigham Young University Rochester Institute of Technology University of Sussex – UK University of Leeds – UK Cambridge University, UK Kings College, London, UK University of Exeter, UK

Editorial Boards:

English: the Journal of the English Association Cambridge University Press’s Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series Signs Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Nineteenth-Century Contexts Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature Victorian Literature and Culture Broadview Anthology of British Literature

Regular manuscript review for

Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press Chicago University Press Blackwells Macmillan/Palgrave

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Routledge Yale University Press University of Virginia Press Ashgate

Additional academic initiatives

Principal organiser (with Anne Helmreich, Erika Rappaport, and Amy Woodson-Boulton), North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference, Pasadena CA, October 23- 27 2013.

Principal organiser: INCS [Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association] conference, Rutgers University, April 2006.

In the mid 1990s, I was a member of the small planning committee that set up a Masters’ degree in Gender Studies at the University of Oxford, and had continuous involvement with teaching, administration, and mentoring on this interdisciplinary course (which admitted around 20 students a year) once it was established.

In the late 1980s, I was closely involved in redesigning the Oxford English Faculty’s two-year M.Phil. course in English Literature 1832-1900, and regularly taught the fiction paper for the compulsory Literature and Society section, as well as a range of options. I supervised the dissertation work of a large proportion of these M.Phil. students. Additionally, I taught the Romantic art and aesthetics option, and on occasion some fiction, for the Romantic Literature M.Phil., and supervised theses and taught a range of authors and topics (largely in contemporary women’s/post-colonial writing) for M.Phil.viii (Twentieth Century), and for the M.Phil. in European Literature. I was fully involved in the admission and examination of graduate students at all stages of their careers.

From 1987 I organised a fortnightly programme of Victorian graduate seminars with internal and external speakers, which has helped to consolidate connections between graduates working in this area. At Rutgers, I have continued to bring visiting speakers to the Department.

1986: (with Marilyn Butler) established a final year undergraduate option on Women’s Writing in the English Department, University of Oxford: subsequent continuous involvement with its teaching and assessment.

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External Examiner for undergraduate and taught graduate degrees at the Universities of Leeds, Ulster, North London, Salford, and North East London Polytechnic.

Regular examiner of doctoral theses both in Oxford and at a number of other U.K. universities, particularly Cambridge and London, and Australian universities.

External assessor: Courtauld Institute of Art’s M.A. degree, 1996-2002.

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From 1991-2008, and in 2013 and 2014, I taught on the M.A. program of the Bread Loaf School of English, under the auspices of Middlebury College: seven summers in Oxford, and eight in New Mexico. The most recent courses that I have taught for Bread Loaf have been “Memory”; “Victorian Narratives,” “Fiction into Film,” “Virginia Woolf and her contemporary women writers,” “Writing and Photography” and “Enjoying Poetry.” Since 2001, I have visited teacher conferences for Bread Loaf teachers at Trenton Central High and in Taos, New Mexico, and have visited/taught in high schools in New Mexico.

From 1982-1988 I acted as a Summer School tutor for the Open University, and I was also a frequent lecturer in the Departments of Continuing Education in Oxford and at Bristol.

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I have acted as an adviser to the Arts and Humanities Research Board in Britain, and the Wellcome Trust for grant/funding proposals. I regularly act as an assessor for the Australian Research Council, and for the Canadian Social Sciences Research Council.

2000-1 Member UK National Advisory Council on English in University Education.

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

Rutgers University

Victorian Culture and Society: the fin-de-siècle Crossing Cultures [contemporary world anglophone literatures] Victorian Grotesques, Freaks and Monsters Obsession C19th women’s writing [cross-listed with Women’s Studies] Writing and photography C20th American: the cultures of the road Changing Britain 1901-2009 Memory

Princeton University

(jointly with Christine Stansell): Introduction to Gender Studies

Oxford University

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At Oxford, I gave tutorials and classes on all areas of English literature from 1520 onwards, concentrating on the later eighteenth, nineteenth (British and American) and twentieth century (British and American) periods.

Lecture courses:

Victorian art, culture, and society Women and Victorian writing Women and Modernism Feminist Theory Contemporary American Ethnic Writing by Women “Feminine Endings” - on gender and narrative Virginia Woolf / Virginia Woolf and women writers of her time Contemporary British women’s writing

Graduate Teaching

University of Southern California

Victorian Fiction and Material Culture The Arts and Technologies of Invisibility (jointly with Lisa Bitel) Introduction to Visual Studies Victorian Writing and Visual Culture Victorian Bestsellers Practicum for new Teaching Assistants

Rutgers University

Introduction to Victorian material culture Material Fictions Advanced Research Methods Visual Culture and Victorian Writing Writing and Photography Women, consciousness and modernity in the British novel 1890-1940

Oxford University

Women and Victorian culture The urban experience The English Abroad Gender and Writing in Victorian England Virginia Woolf and women writers of the 20s and 30s Feminist Theory

Post-doctoral mentorship

USC

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2011- Julia Lee (English: Provost Post Doc): now Assistant Professor at University of Nevada: Las Vegas 2013 – 15 Samantha Burton (Art History: Canadian SSHRC post-doc).

Rutgers

2008-10 – Jennifer Esmail – now in a tenure track position at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario

Dissertation direction/Doctoral Supervisions etc.

USC:

Art History

Director

Sarah Goodrum: “The Problem of the Missing Museum: Adventures and Misadventures in the Display of Photographs in the GDR” (defended 05.12.15) Karen Huang: “Artists’ Reenactments: the Vietnam War, the War on Terror, and the Performance of American Activism” (defended Spring 2016) Elizabeth Murphy: “Native American Artists and Modernism in the Twentieth-Century American Southwest” (defending Spring 2017) Christopher McGeorge: “Mediums for the Masses: Stained Glass and Murals in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (completing Spring 2018) Lauren Dodds: “Collecting the Renaissance: The Samuel H. Kress Collection of Renaissance Art” (completing Spring 2018) Avigail Moss: “Actuarial Imaginaries of Art and Empire, 1800-191(completing Spring 2020)

Committee:

Ellen Dooley, “Affluence, Art and Plague in Seventeenth-Century Seville” (defended April 2015) Virginia Solomon, “Sexuality and Signification: Episodes of General Idea's Subcultural Politics” (defended August 2013) Sarah Hollenberg, “Art on Television,” (defended June 2012) Karen Moss (defended Spring 2016)

English

Committee:

Corinna Schroeder, “Dwelling in Possibility: House Removals in the Victorian Novel” Darby Waters Rebecca Ehrhardt

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Brianna Beehler

Rutgers:

Director:

Sarah Alexander (defended August 2009) [Associate professor, University of Vermont] Kristie Allen (defended December 2007 – now working for a non-profit Alia Hanna Habib (withdrew: now a well-established literary agent) Amanda Koch, “Self-education in British Fiction, 1865-1920” (defended Spring 2015) [Lecturer, NYU]. Dawn Lilley, “Anti-maternalism in British Modernist Fiction” Megan Ward (defended April 2008) [Assistant professor, University of Oregon] Paul Yeoh (defended August 2010) [working for ETS]

Committee:

Devin Griffiths (defended April 2010) [Assistant Professor: University of Southern California] Nellickal Jacob (defended April 2012) Meghan Lau (2010: 2010-11, awarded post-doctoral Fellowship, Columbia University, but decided to work for the Canadian diplomatic service). Mimi Winick (defended September 2016: Lecturer, Rutgers University).

New York University

Maeve Adams (external committee member: defended May 2010) [Assistant Professor, Manhattan College] Jonathan Farina (external committee member: defended August 2008) [Assistant Professor: Seton Hall University]

Oxford:

Amal Abdul-Mawla, Women characters in D.H. Lawrence's short stories [Professor, University of Damascus] Matthew Beaumont, C19th Utopian Fiction [Senior Lecturer in English, University College, London] Lucy Bending, The rhetoric of pain in Victorian writing [Lecturer in English, University of Reading] Kate Bellamy, Men and the Gothic novel [Associate Professor, Dept of English, Concordia College, NY] Sarah Bilston, Female adolescence in C19th fiction [Assistant Professor, Trinity College, Hartford] Richard Canning, The Impact of Aids on Homosexual Literature [Lecturer in English, University of Sheffield] Laura Chrisman, The Impact of Imperialism on English Writing 1890-1920, with special reference to Southern Africa [Professor of English, University of Washington] Valérie Cossy, French-Swiss translations of Jane Austen [Maître assistante suppléante,

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Department of English, University of Lausanne, Switzerland] Delia da Sousa Correa, Music in C19th Literature, especially George Eliot [Senior Lecturer, Open University, UK] Melissa Fegan, Literature of the Irish Famine [Reader in English, University College Chester] Fiona Giles, The Construction of the Heroine in C19th Australian women's fiction Joanna Griffiths, Charlotte Mew [independent scholar and novelist] Louise Hudd, Mutilation and the Body in mid-nineteenth century literature Isobel Hurst, Women, Literature, and Classical Education in Victorian England [Lecturer in English, Goldsmith’s College, London] Rebecca Loncraine, Djuna Barnes’s New York Journalism, 1911-1921 Clare Loughlin, Charles Dickens' Journalism [Dean of Academic Affairs and Registrar at Richmond, The American International University in London] Drayton Nabers III, Anthropology and Literary Modernism [Associate professor of English, Brown University] Sarah Nuttall, Women readers and writers in contemporary South Africa [Lecturer, Dept. of English, Witzwatersrand University, SA] Muireann O’Cinneide, Mid-Victorian Aristocratic Women Writers [Lecturer: National University of Ireland, Galway]. Sowon Park, Suffrage Fiction [Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford] Clare Pettitt, Invention and Victorian Fiction [Professor of English, King’s College, London University] Sally Powell, The Corpse in C19th Fiction Caroline Roberts, Harriet Martineau Maya Socolovsky, Memory in Latina writing [Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte] Megan Stephan, The Femme Fatale in Victorian Women’s Fiction [Lecturer, UCLA] Peter Stoneley, Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic [Professor of English, Reading University] Matthew Sweet, Masculinity in Sensation Fiction Kate Thomas, Post Office Reform and C19th writing [Associate Professor of English, Bryn Mawr] Mark Wormald, The Origin of Speeches: Language and Form in the C19th novel [Fellow and Tutor in English, Pembroke College, Cambridge University]

(please note that in the UK, “lecturer” is normally a tenured position)

Orals/qualifying examination committee member

USC

Sam Adams (Art History: fall 2012) Megan Mastroianni (Art History: fall 2012) Bess Murphy (Art History: spring 2013) Nadya Bair (Art History: spring 2013)

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Lida Sunderland (Art History: spring 2013) Rika Hiro (Art History: spring 2013) Karen Huang (Art History: spring 2013) Lauren Dodds (Art History: fall 2014) Christopher McGeorge (Art History: spring/fall 2015) Avigail Moss (exams spring 2017)

Kathryn Page-Lippsmeyer (East Asian Studies: summer 2012)

Stephen Pasqualina (English: spring 2012) Rob Rabiee (English: spring 2013) Mike Bennett (English: spring 2013) Corinna Schroeder (English: spring 2014) Robin Coste Lewis (English: 2016) Brianna Beehler (English: fall 2017) Darby Walters (English: spring 2018) Rebecca Ehrhardt (English: spring 2018)

Rutgers

Mimi Winick Sarah Alexander Kristie Allen Virginia Gilmartin Devin Griffiths Alia Habib Jesse Hoffman Vivian Kao Meghan Lau Dawn Lilley Nellickal Jacob Amanda Kotch Caolan Madden Sarah Sheridan Megan Ward Paul Yeoh JaeEun Yoo

Languages

French (excellent); Italian (good); Spanish, German, Portuguese (passable spoken; good reading knowledge); Latin, Classical Greek (reading knowledge).

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Professional Memberships

Modern Languages Association American Studies Association College Art Association North American Victorian Studies Association British Victorian Studies Association Historians of British Art

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