Full-Time Faculty

Jennifer Green-Lewis
MA (Hons) University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1984
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1990

My research interests are reflected in my teaching at GW and include: nineteenth and early twentieth-century British literature and the visual arts, with a particular emphasis on photography; Victorian and modernist aesthetics.

Books:

Reading Beauty in Delillo, Merrill, and Woolf. With Margaret Soltan. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming, Spring 2007.

 Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism. Ithaca, New York: Cornell UP, 1996.

Other Publications:

“ ‘Already the Past’: The Backward Glance of Victorian Photography.” English Language Notes., 44:2, Fall/Winter 2006. 25-44.

“Not Fading Away: Photography in the Age of Oblivion.” Nineteenth-century Contexts. 2001. Vol. 22. 559-585.

“At Home in the Nineteenth Century: Photography, Nostalgia, and the Will to Authenticity.” Victorian Afterlife: Contemporary Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. Eds. John Kucich and Dianne Sadoff. Minneapolis/London: U of Minnesota P, 2000; 29-48.

“Picturing England: On Photography, Landscape, and the End(s) of Imperial Culture.” Genre, Summer 1996. 29: 1 & 2. 33-63.

"'The right thing in the right place': P. H. Emerson and the Picturesque Photograph." Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination. Eds. Carol Christ and John O. Jordan. Berkeley, CA.: U of California P, 1995. 88-110.