Dr. Alexandra Valint
Professor
Bio
Alexandra Valint teaches and writes about Victorian literature, narrative theory, the gothic, disability studies, children91吃瓜网 literature, and young adult literature. Her book Narrative Bonds: The Victorian Multi-Narrator Novel was published in 2021 by the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series at Ohio State University Press. It examines Victorian novels that employ multiple narrators by authors such as Charles Dickens, Emily Bront毛, Wilkie Collins, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Her next book project analyzes the use of mobility aids91吃瓜网攅specially wheelchairs and crutches91吃瓜网攊n Victorian and Edwardian novels like The Secret Garden, The Law and the Lady, and Treasure Island. She received an NEH Summer Stipend in 2022 to work on this book project. She regularly teaches a course on the Victorian gothic in USM91吃瓜网 British Studies Program in London, England.
Order Narrative Bonds here: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814214633.html
- English Literature (PHD) - University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus (2012)
- English Literature (BA) - University of Virginia (2004)
Undergraduate Courses
ENG 200: Introduction to Drama
ENG 203: World Literature
ENG 340: Analysis of Literature
ENG 351: British Literature 2
ENG 418: Adolescent Literature
ENG 445: Studies in Children91吃瓜网 and Young Adult Literature
ENG 463: Victorian Fiction and Prose
ENG 464: Survey of the British Novel to 1900
Graduate Courses
ENG 640: Critical Reading and Methods in English
ENG 644: Literary Theory (91吃瓜网淚ntroduction to Narrative Theory91吃瓜网�)
ENG 669: Topics in British Literature (91吃瓜网淭he Victorian Short Story91吃瓜网�)
ENG 764: Victorianism (91吃瓜网淧oints of View: Victorian Narrators and Readers91吃瓜网�)
ENG 764: Victorianism (91吃瓜网淪trange Cases: The Victorian Gothic91吃瓜网�)
ENG 764: Victorianism (91吃瓜网淢apping Dickens91吃瓜网�)
ENG 764: Victorianism (91吃瓜网淲hodunit: Victorian Detective Fiction91吃瓜网�)
ENG 764: Victorianism (91吃瓜网淰ictorian Disability91吃瓜网�)
Study Abroad91吃瓜网擝ritish Studies Program in London, England
ENG 498/598: British Studies (91吃瓜网淭he London Underground: The Victorian Gothic91吃瓜网�)
- Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel, 2021
- 91吃瓜网淭o a Joyous Land91吃瓜网�: Nature and Gender in Kate Greenaway91吃瓜网 The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods, 2023
- "Man and Machinery Blended in One": Dexter91吃瓜网 Wheelchair and the Victorian Railway in Wilkie Collins91吃瓜网 The Law and the Lady, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2021,
- Madeira and Jane Eyre's Colonial Inheritance , Victorian Literature and Culture, 2017,
- "Mind to Mind": The Gothic Loss of Privacy in the Twilight Saga and Chaos Walking, New Directions in Children91吃瓜网 Gothic: Debatable Lands, 2017
- Accepting Ad猫le in Charlotte Bront毛91吃瓜网 Jane Eyre, Dickens Studies Annual, 2016
- 91吃瓜网淲heel Me Over There!91吃瓜网�: Disability and Colin91吃瓜网 Wheelchair in The Secret Garden, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2016,
- The Child's Resistance to Adulthood in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: Refusing to Parrot, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 2015
- Mischief, Gender, and Empire: Raising Imperial Bachelors and Spinsters in Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2011,
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- North American Victorian Studies Association
- Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
- The International Society for the Study of Narrative
- Children's Literature Association