Degrees Held
B.A., 1979, Yale University
Ph.D, 1990, Yale University
Academic Summary
Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Professor of English, specializes in British Romantic and Victorian literature. Her research and publications focus primarily on nineteenth-century poetry, but her recent work has turned to the notion of “theatricality” as it is employed in various genres. She also teaches and publishes in the field of utopian studies and is particularly interested in speculative fiction by women. Dr. Wagner-Lawlor is also Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Courses Taught
3220 British Literature since 1798
3222 Victorian Literature and Culture
4451 Women and Literature
7278 Victorian Literature and Culture
7451 Women and Literature
7280 Nineteenth-Century British Novel
7*** Special Topic: Utopian Literature
Major Publications
- Editor, The Victorian Comic Spirit. (Ashgate, 2000) (essay collection).
- A Moment’s Monument: Revisionary Poetics and the Nineteenth-Century English Sonnet. (Fairleigh Dickinson, 1996).
- "‘Yet Many of These Are Askew’: On Imitation, Originality, and Parody in Swinburne’s Heptalogia." Victorian Literature and Culture (1998).
- "The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning’s Dramatic Monologues." Victorian Poetry (1997).
- "Metaphorical ‘Indiscretion’ and Literary Survival in Swinburne’s ‘Anactoria.'" Studies in English Literature (SEL) (1996).
