Syllabus and major assignments for a first-year interdisciplinary seminar on data and society, taught in Fall 2022.

Presented at the MVSA Lifetime Achievement Award Roundtable in Honor of Patrick Leary. This paper claims that the VICTORIA-L email listserv, which Leary inaugurated in 1993, represents one of the longest running digital humanities projects in Victorian studies. Instead of its technical sophistication, VICTORIA-L underscores the crucial role of…[Read more]

Eliot’s final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), has often been seen as problematic,
and for one major reason: the so-called Jewish storyline. The common sentiment
that the novel was one of two distinct halves, one vastly superior to the other, was
expressed most famously by F. R. Leavis in The Great Tradition (1948), where
he refers to the J…[Read more]

By looking at the figure of the painted older woman in nineteenth-century novels, this article examines how changing attitudes to cosmetics punished ageing women who clung to the make-up of their youth. As a warning against such continued practices, Catherine Gore’s ageing Lady Ormington demonstrates how devotion to make-up cannot hold back the s…[Read more]