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Rachel Teukolsky

Title: Associate Professor

Department: English

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Email: rachel.teukolsky@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

  • Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2004
  • B.A. Harvard University, 1996

Research Area

  • Victorian Literature and Culture
  • Non-fiction Prose
  • The Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
  • Aesthetics, Art History, Visual culture
  • History and Theory of Gender and Sexuality

Current Research

  • Aesthetic Networks: Victorian New Media and the Idea of Art (in progress)
  • Sexual Geographies: Utopian Terrains of the Late-Victorian Counterculture (in progress)

Current Courses

  • The Nineteenth-Century Criminal (Fall 2011)
  • The Cultures and Histories of Victorian Britain (co-taught with Jim Epstein, Spring 2012)
  • Visuality, Visual Culture, and the Victorian Imagination (Graduate seminar, Spring 2012)

Professional Societies

  • North American Victorian Studies Association
  • Modernist Studies Association
  • Modern Language Association

Publications

  • Book:

  • The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 2009)

  • Articles:

  • "Novels, Newspapers, and Global War: New Realisms in the 1850s." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. 45:1 (Spring 2012). (forthcoming).
  • "White Girls: Avant-Gardism and Advertising after 1860." Victorian Studies 51.3 (April 2009): 422-437.
  • "Pictures in Bleak Houses: Slavery and the Aesthetics of Transatlantic Reform." ELH 76 (2009).
  • "Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics." PMLA (May 2007). Also, a "Forum" response, PMLA (March 2008).
  • "This Sublime Museum: Looking at Art at the Great Exhibition," Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace, eds. James Buzard, Joseph Childers, and Eileen Gillooly (University of Virginia Press, 2007).
  • "The Politics of Formalist Art Criticism: Pater's 'School of Giorgione,'" Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire, eds. Laurel Brake, Lesley Higgins, and Carolyn Williams (ELT Press, 2002).

  • Book Reviews:

  • Review of Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education. In Victorian Studies, Spring 2008.
  • Review of Colette Colligan, The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley: Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture. In Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, Feb. 2008.
  • "Pursuing the Victorian Honeymoon." Review of Helena Michie, Victorian Honeymoons: Sexual Reorientations and the 'Sights' of Europe. In Nineteenth-Century Genders, Winter 2007.