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Curriculum Vitae 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) 1 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 2 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. 3 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 4 “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,
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