Title: Assistant Professor (Visiting)

Department: English

Office: Benson 423
Phone: (615) 322-6979
Cell Phone: (732) 887-2296
Email: jonathan.farina@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• Ph.D., New York University (2008)
• B.S., Boston College (2002)

Research Area

• Nineteenth-century British literature and culture; character; history/sociology of knowledge; the novel and the periodical miscellany

Current Courses

• ENGL 118W: Literary and Cultural Analysis - Educations from Doctor Faustus to Dr. Seuss (Fall 2008)
• ENGL 255: The Victorian Period (Fall 2008)
• ENGL 231: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Spring 2009)
• ENGL 288-4: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Crime (Spring 2009)

Current Positions

• Treasurer & Secretary, The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association

Professional Societies

• Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
• North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
• North American Victorian Studies Association

Publications

• “‘A Certain Shadow’ of Society: Personified Abstractions and the Form of Household Words,” Victorian Periodicals Review (forthcoming)
• “Middlemarch and ‘that Sort of Thing,’” RaVoN: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (forthcoming)
• “‘The Mighty Commonwealth of Things’: Deep Characters of Knowledge in The Excursion,” The Wordsworth Circle 39.1/2 (Winter/Spring 2008): 11-15
• “Characterizing the Factory System: Factory Tourism and Factory Subjectivity in Household Words,” Victorian Literature and Culture 35.1 (March 2007): 41-56
• “Superstitious Marginalia: Coleridge and Waverley,” The Wordsworth Circle 36.1 (Winter 2005): 29-32