Dissertations in progress:
- Hannah Rosefield (On friendship in Victorian Fiction)
- Emily Silk (Uncommon Schools: Literature and the Rise of Public Education, 1830-1920
- Porter White (Victorian Fictional Cartographies)
- Sezen Unluonen (on evil in 19th-century fiction)
- Aruni Mahapatra (Emory University), (representations of scholarship in nineteenth-century Odia fiction).
Dissertations completed:
as committee chair:
Rachel Stern (Fictions of Selfhood in the Age of the Social Fact)
Matt Franks (“Stages of Subscription, 1880-1922”; chair)
Lecturer in Drama (tenure-track), University of Warwick
Heather Brink-Roby "Typical People in the Nineteenth-Century Novel" (2015)
Junior Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge University; Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford
Lesley Goodman “Indignant Reading” (2013)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalaster College
Liz Maynes-Aminzade “Victorian Macrorealism” (2013)
Lecturer on History & Literature, Harvard
Matthew Sussman "Stylistic Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Fiction" (2013)
Lecturer, University of Sydney
Maia McAleavey, “The Shadowy Third: Bigamy and the Victorian Novel” (2010)
Assistant Professor of English, Boston College
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner,“Talking Shakespeare in the Nineteenth‑Century British Novel” (2010)
Assistant Professor of English, Linfield College
Hannah Sullivan, "Passionate Correction: The Theory and Practice of Modernist Revision" (2008)
Lecturer in English, Oxford University. Leverhulme Fellow. Assistant Professor, Stanford
Melissa Jenkins, "The Father Refigured" (2007)
Associate Professor of English, Wake Forest University
as committee member:
Amanda Auerbach (Getting Lost in the 18th- and 19th-Century Novel)
Alison Chapman (The Corner of the Eye: Peripheral Attention and the English Novel)
Annie Wyman (Funny Book: Studies in the Comic Novel)
Carra Glatt, "Counterfactuals in the Nineteenth Century Novel" (2016)
Daniel Williams, "The Hap of Things: Uncertainty and the English Novel" (2015)
Harvard Society of Fellows
Margaret Rennix, "Cognitive Binding: 19th Century Literature and the Structure of Thought" (2015)
Harvard Expository Writing Program
Laura Johnson Forsberg, "The Miniature and Victorian Literature" (2015)
Fellow, Huntington Library
Matthew Ocheltree, "The Adventure of Origins, the Politics of Genre, and the Archaeology of the Future in Romanticism" (2015)
R.J. Jenkins (on ethology and the Victorian novel) (2015)
Senior Assistant Dean of Students, Columbia University
Greta Pane, “The First Scale of Attention: Linguistic Form and Aesthetic Experience in the Novel” (2013)
Kilachand Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University
Elaine Auyoung, “Partial Cues and the Promise of More in Nineteenth-Century Realism” (2011)
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Sarah Wagner-McCoy, “Transatlantic pastoral and the realist novel” (2011)
Assistant Professor of English, Reid College
Jacob Jost, “Prose immortality, 1711-1791” (2011)
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows; Assistant Professor, Dickinson College
Julia Lee, "The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel, 1833-1863" (2008)
Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Debra Gettelman, “Reverie, Reading and the Victorian Novel” (2005)
Associate Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross
Matthew Rubery “The Novelty of News: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the Newspaper” (2004)
Reader in English, Queen Mary, University of London
Allen MacDuffie (“The City and the Sun: The Rise of Energy Culture in Victorian Britain,” 2007. Third reader.)
Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin
Guillermo Bleichmar (Comparative Literature; “Reconciliations with reality: The affect of literary realism from Wordsworth to Joyce,” 2007. Third reader)
Tutor, St. John’s College
Monica Lewis ("Anthony Trollope Among the Moderns: Reading Aloud in Britain 1850‑1960," 2006. Third reader)
Teacher, St. Alban’s School
Post-doc: Simon Reader (Toronto Ph.D.: “Thinking in Pieces: Victorian Notebooks and Notation”; now tenure-track assistant professor, CUNY-Staten Island)
