“Victorian Age” Instructors

ENG-334 — During the Victorian era England reached its pinnacle of power and prestige. Its trade was four times that of the United States France Germany and Italy combined. It had established a world empire. England also experienced the upheavals of the Irish Rebellion the Women's Movement Industrialism Darwinism and foreign wars. Such a culture nurtured one of the great literary periods producing such novelists as Charles Dickens Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Thomas Hardy and George Eliot; such poets as Alfred Lord Tennyson Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Christina Rossetti Gerard Manly Hopkins; such great essayists as Matthew Arnold John Stuart Mill John Henry Newman and Thomas Carlyle.

Claude Brew

I teach a variety of general education courses—First-Term Seminar, Appreciation of Fiction, Appreciation of Literature—but my regular courses are the Survey of British Literature from 1789 to the present, The British Novel, Studies in Romanticism, and The Victorian Age; for many years I have also taught a course on Hemingway and Faulkner…   (continue reading)

Joyce Sutphen Professor

I teach a range of courses in British Literature and Creative Writing. Though I began as a Shakespearean and continue to write essays on the sonnets and aspects of memory in Shakespeare's plays and poems, I love teaching the Victorian Age and Modern Poetry. Over the last years, I have become very interested in Irish Literature and the London poetry…   (continue reading)

So Young Park Assistant Professor

I teach courses in nineteenth-century British literature, especially Victorian literature and culture. My teaching interests include women novelists (Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Woolf), the culture of the 1890s, narrative theory, and Modernism. Currently, my research centers on Victorian novels and their representation of consciousness and…   (continue reading)