Undergraduate courses
The Culture of Empire: from colonizing to decolonizing
The Darwinian Revolution
The London Style: Urban Literary Culture from the 1980s to the present
Women, Writing, Modernity, 1789-1859
The Victorian Novel: Bestsellers and the Creative Industries
Literature and Social Change: 1859—A Literature of Revolution?
Victorian Literature and Culture
Introduction to Literary Studies
Reading the Body, Interpreting the Mind
Writing and Academic Enquiry: Reading Writing Detroit
Honors courses
Culture
History of Literary Criticism and Theory
Topics in Literary Criticism and Theory
Is Literature Art?
Art and Community in Nineteenth-Century Culture
John Ruskin: Art, Truth, and Politics
Theories of Art and Beauty
Graduate courses
Historicizing Literature: Class, Race, and Gender
Liberalism and Scientific Thought
Aesthetics and Politics
The Two Cultures: Darwin and Eliot
Introduction to Victorian Literature and Culture
Aesthetics and Politics in the Nineteenth Century
Evolution of Mind
Theories of Scientific Method
Scientific World-Views
Cultures of Modernity
Director of Doctoral Dissertation
Pamela Wolpert (2019): “In Search of Self: Wandering in the British Novel, 1860-1910.” Defended 18 December 2019.
Jenny Kohn (2018): “Debating Difference in an Age of Reform: Liberal Praxis and Representation in mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain.”
Elizabeth McAdams (2015): ‘Turning Japanese: Japonisme in Victorian Literature and Culture.”
Mark Frost: (2006): ‘Ruskin and Ecology.”
Maureen Rickman (2006): “Race and Sensibility in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century.”
Member of Dissertation Committee
Stephanie Triplett (History of Art, 2019): “The Rise of Narrative Animal Painting in France and Germany, 1790-1880.”
Aran Ruth (2018): “Aeolian Resonance: Acousmatic Sound and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination.”
Christie Peterson Allen (English, 2016): “The Informed Victorian Reader.”
Emily Howard (English, 2015): “Grounds of Knowledge: Unofficial Epistemologies of British Environmental Writing, 1745-1835.”
Chris Coltrin (History of Art, 2010), “Destruction and Deliverance: British Religious Art in the Style of John Martin, 1816-1840.”
Michael Tondre (English, 2010): “Social Physics: Victorian Scientific Theory and Social Models, 1840-1880.”
Ji-Hyae Park (English, 2008): “The Social Idealism of Aestheticism.”
Sheshalatha Reddy (English, 2007): “The Poetics of Nation and Empire: Imagining England in India.”
Sarah Mitchell (History, 2006): “Cases of Conjoined Twins in the Nineteenth Century.”
Sabine Clemm (English, 2005): “Mapping the World in Household Words: Charles Dickens, Journalism and Nationhood in the 1850s.”
Rada Getova (History, 2004): “The Rhetoric of the French Revolution.”
Ian Rossiter (English, 1999): “Print Culture in mid-Victorian England.”
