Antje Schaum Anderson (PhD 1998)
Professor at Hastings College
Dissertation: “Sex and the Marriage Plot: Stories of Defloration in the British Novel”
Kattie Basnett (PhD 2014)
Communications Specialist at Texas Workforce Commission
Dissertation: “Animal Remainders, Remaining Animal: Cross-Species Encounters in Victorian Literature”
Ayse Celikkol (PhD 2006)
Professor at Bilkent University, Turkey
Romances of Free Trade: British Literature, LaissezFaire, and the Global Nineteenth Century (Oxford UP, 2011)
Dissertation: “Free Trade and Fantasies of the Global in British Literature and Political Economy, 1814-1865”
Janna M. Smartt Chance (PhD 2008)
Assistant Professor of English at Union University
Dissertation: “Obeying God Rather Than Men: Protestant Individualism and the Empowerment of Victorian Women”
Eileen Cleere (PhD 1996)
Professor of English at Southwestern University
The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns (Ohio State UP, 2014
Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy and Nineteenth-Century English Culture (Stanford University Press, 2004)
Dissertation: “The Shape of Uncles: Capitalism, Affection, and the Cultural Construction of the Victorian Family”
Anne L. Dayton (PhD 2009)
Research Manager, McNair Center, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Dissertation: “Awkward Visits: District Visiting, Gender and MiddleClass Identity in the Victorian Imagination”
Heather Elliott (PhD 2014)
Novelist
Dissertation: “Fantastic Journeys in Children’s Novels 1865-1911”
Pamela Francis (PhD 2013)
Associate Lecturer of English at Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts
Dissertation: “The Landscape of Empire: Imperial London, 1870-1939”
Jennifer Hargrave (PhD 2016)
Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University
Dissertation: “The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759-1857”
Jaya Hariprasad (PhD 2009)
Graduate Student in the Master’s of Counseling Program at Northwestern University
Dissertation: “Marriage and Nation: Victorian Literature, the Anglo-Indian Tradition, and the Nineteenth-Century Indian Novel”
Margaret P. Harvey (PhD 2017)
Dissertation: “A Woman’s Worth: Gendered Concepts of Value in Victorian Literature”
Duncan I. Hasell (PhD 2009)
Professor at Houston Community College
Dissertation: “Material Fictions: Readers and Textuality in the British Novel, 1814-1852”
Kay H. Heath (PhD 2001)
Professor of English at Georgia Gwinett College
Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain (SUNY Press, 2009)
Dissertation: “Aging by the Book: Textual Constructions of Midlife in Victorian Britain”
Jeffrey Jackson (PhD 2012)
Assistant Professor of English at Monmouth University
Dissertation: “Withdrawing from History: Wordsworth, Scott, and Dickens and the Afterlife of the Scottish Enlightenment”
Eun Young Koh (PhD 2012)
Dissertation: “The Victorian Religious Novel: Conversion, Confession, and the Marriage Plot”
Dejan Kuzmanovic (PhD 2003)
Associate Professor of English at University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Dissertation: “Seduction Rhetoric, Masculinity, and Homoeroticism in Wilde, Gide, Stoker, and Forster”
Karen L. Lewis (PhD 2004)
Dissertation: “The Victorian Short Story: A Textural Culture’s Forgotten Genre”
Heather Miner (PhD 2013)
College Adviser at Lewis and Clark College
Dissertation: “Regionalism and the Victorian Imagination: Building the Nation, 1832-1895”
Kevin Morrison (PhD 2009)
Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University
Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture (Univ. of Edinburgh, forthcoming 2018)
Dissertation: “Inhabiting Liberalism: Politics, Culture, and the Spaces of Masculine Professionalism, 1823-1903”
Janet C. Myers (PhD 2000)
Professor of English at Elon University
The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain; co-edited Deidre H. McMahon (Routledge, 2016)
Antipodal England: Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination (SUNY Press, 2009)
Dissertation: “Antipodal England: Emigration, Gender, and Portable Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture”
Joanna O’Leary (PhD 2013)
Dissertation: “Terror of the Tiny: Contagion and Transformation in Nineteenth-Century Literature”
(Anna) Louise Penner (PhD 2000)
Professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Boston
Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture; co-edited with Tabitha Sparks (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)
Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010)
Dissertation: “Narrative under the Microscope: Evidentiary Discourses in Victorian Literature and Culture, 1839-1876”
Novelist; 2016 MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire) Residential Fellow
Dissertation: “‘The line invisible’: Intertextuality and the men and women poets of British Romanticism”
Anna Dodson Saikin (PhD 2015)
Dissertation: “Silence, Sentimentalism, and the British Romantic Novel, 1789–1824”
Stephen Da Silva (PhD 1998)
Dissertation: “Queer Nationalism: Representations of Male Homosexuality and the Discourse of Nation”
Victoria Ford Smith (PhD 2010)
Assistant Professor at University of Connecticut
Dissertation: “Between Generations: Imagination, Collaboration, and the Nineteenth-Century Child”
Rebecca F. Stern (PhD 1997)
Associate Professor at University of South Carolina
Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian Culture (Ohio State University Press, 2008)
Dissertation: “Historicizing Performativity: Constructing Identities in Victorian England”
Deborah A. Thompson (PhD 1993)
Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University
Dissertation: “Productions of the Body: Embodiment in Contemporary Drama and Performance”
(Jennifer) Sophie Weeks (PhD 2013)
Novelist
Dissertation: “In Maiden Meditation”: Readership and the Victorian Girl”
Elizabeth Womack (PhD 2010)
Assistant Professor at Penn. State Brandywine
Dissertation: “Secondhand Economies: Recycling, Reuse, and Exchange in the Victorian Novel”