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Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art. Princeton University Press, September, 2000 Articles

“Display Time: Art, Disgust, and the Returns of the Crystal Palace.” Forthcoming, Yearbook of English Studies. Spring 2010.

“Owning Art after Napoleon: Trophy, Symbol, and the Question of Restitution at the Birth of the Museum.” PMLA (forthcoming, Spring 2010) “Looking at the Limits of Autonomy.” Victorian Studies. Forthcoming, Fall 2009

“Speed, Desire, and the Museum: The Golden Bowl as Art Romance,” Henry James Review. Fall 2002 “Leonardo, Pater and the Challenge of Attribution” Raritan (Fall 2001)

“Among the English Poets: Keats, Arnold, and the Placement of Fragments.” Victorian Poetry. Summer, 1999

“Black Arts, Ruined Cathedrals, and the Grave in Engraving: Ruskin and the Fatal Excess of Art.” Victorian Literature and Culture. Fall, 1999 Book Chapters “Art and the Museum” in Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts, ed. Elicia Clements and Lesley Higgins. Forthcoming, Palgrave, 2010 “Schooling Leonardo: Collaboration, Desire, and the Challenge of Attribution in Pater” in Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire, ed. Laurel Brake, Lesley Higgins, and Carolyn Williams. Greensboro NC: ELT Press, 2002 Reviews “William Tronzo, The Fragment: An Incomplete History, Forthcoming, CAA.Reviews Fall, 2009

“Christopher Whitehead, the Public Art Museum. Victorian Studies. Fall 2006 “Jordanna Bailkin, The Culture of Property: The Crisis of Liberalism in Modern Britian

and Wayne Thomas, Cultivating Victorians: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic.” Victorian Studies, , Winter 2005

“Nicola Bown, Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature.” Nineteenth- Century Literature, Fall 2002 “Desire and Disgust” [Barry Bullen, Pre-Raphaelite Body]. Pater Newsletter, Spring 2000 “Ruskin and the Environment.”Victorian Studies. Winter 1997

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Invited Lectures “The Brownings in Italy: In and out of the Tradition.” Browning Society, New

York, October 11 2006

“Wonders Taken for Signs: The Institution of the Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain' Princeton University, March 2006

“The Museum in Nineteenth-Century Britain,” Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City, April 2006

“Wonders Taken for Signs: The Institution of the Museum in Nineteenth-Century

Britain' Bard Graduate Center, New York City, February 2006 “The Passion of the Muse: Interest, Desire, and Material Inspiration in the Nineteenth Century”American University, Washington DC. December 8, 2005

"Interesting: Desire and the Body of Imagination," The Long Nineteenth Century, A Symposium for Steven Marcus Columbia University, New York City, October 14, 2005, “The Art Romance Tradition,” American Academy in Rome, September 2003 “The Haunted Museum: Is there an art Romance Tradition?” Eighteenth-and- Nineteenth Century Colloquium Department of English, Yale University,

November 2002 “Display Time: Art, Accumulation, and Disgust.” The Great Exhibition and Its Legacies, 1851-2001 Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, May 2001 “Finelli’s Laurels and the School of Leonardo: Collaboration, Desire, and the Challenge of Attribution in Pater and After.” Department of English, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, March 2001 “Schooling Leonardo: Desire, Power, and the Challenge of Attribution in Pater and After.” Victorian Seminar, Humanities Center, Harvard, October, 1999 “Returning with Joyce.” Class of 1953 reunion lecture, Harvard University, June 1998 “The Artist as Ruin: Fuseli’s Self-Portraits and Hazlitt on Coleridge.” Department of English, Harvard University, January 1993 Conference Papers “Pater and the (Art) History of the Museum,” British Association of Victorian

Studies/ North American Victorian Studies Joint Conference, Cambridge England, July 2009

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“The Loves of the Old Masters as a Problem in Culture,” North American Victorian Studies Conference, Yale University, November, 2008 “Owning Art After Napoleon: Trophy, Symbol, and Romantic Cultural Property,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, March 2008 "Palaces of Paper: The Periodical Great Exhibition," MLA Convention (Panel:

Writing Periodically: Theory),Washington, DC. December 28, 2005

“The Museum in the ‘Age of the Museum:’ Idea and Uncertainty at the Emergence of the Institution.” North American Victorian Studies Conference, University

of Virginia, Charlottesville, Oct. 1 2005 “The Space Around the Fragment: The Problem of Antiquity at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.” Joseph Johnson Panel, Wordsworth Circle, MLA National conference, New Orleans, December 2001 “Collaboration, Desire, and the Challenge of Attribution in Pater and After.” International Pater Conference, Oxford University, July 2000 “Museum Dreams, Museum Nightmares: Hazlitt, Ruskin, James.” MLA National Conference, San Francisco, December 1998 “Schooling Leonardo: Desire, power, and the question of attribution in The Renaissance.” Victorian Collaborations Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, May 1998 “‘The work of his pupils:’ Desire, power, and attribution in The Renaissance.” Victorian Scholarship Conference, Center for Victorian Studies, Leeds, March 1998 “‘Not the Judgment but the Resurrection’: Walter Pater and the Deaths of the Critic.” “Life and Death,” Interdisciplinary 19th Century Society Conference Berkeley, April 1997 “Cosmopolitan Nostalgia, International Anxiety: Reproduction, Travel, and the Experience of Art in Ruskin.” Defining Centres: Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference,University of Edinburgh, July 1995 “Glass Houses: Keats, Monckton Milnes, and the Exhibition of Treasure.” Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference, New York University, May 1994 “Figures of Speech: Fragmentation and Accumulation in Hazlitt’s Account of Coleridge.” Re-Reading Romanticism Conference, Duke University, October 1993

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Other Presentations Convener, “Museum Studies and Literary Studies Today” panel. MLA Convention, Chicago, December 29 2007 Respondent, Mary Loeffelholz, “Aurora Leigh in America,” The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-century Poetry in Transatlantic Context Conference, Rutgers, September 2002 Respondent, Victorian Origins and Excavations Conference, Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Kingston, Ontario, April 2002 Respondent, The Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century panel, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies conference, Nov. 2001 Professional Service Executive Committee of Victorian Division, MLA 2008- Judge, Donald Gray Prize, North American Victorian Studies Association (2008-2010) Tenure Review, Boston College (2008), Columbia University (2008) Manuscript Reader, Blackwell, 2008 Executive Committee of Victorian Division, MLA 2008- Manuscript reader, Journal of British Studies Promotion review: American University, Cornell University President, Northeast Victorian Studies Association, 2006- Manuscript reader, Faber and Faber, 2001-2 Manuscript reader, Tennessee University Press, 2001 Manuscript reader, Victorian Studies, 2001- Manuscript reader, PMLA, 2002-2003 Reader, National Humanities Center applications, 2000- Chair, Program Committee, North East Victorian Studies Association Conference, 2000-2001 Co-chair, Victorian Seminar, Harvard Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, 1995-99 Member, Steering Committee, North East Victorian Studies Association Conference, 1997- Departmental Service—Rutgers Placement Director, 2007-2008 Associate Director of Graduate Studies, 2004-2006, 2008-2009 Executive Committee, 2000-2001; 2002-3; 2004-5; 2005-6; 2007-8 Undergraduate Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2005-6 Advising Committee, 1999-2001 Honors, 1999-2001; 2002-3 Graduate Committees Graduate Executive, 2004-6; 2007-2008 Admissions, 2000-08 Advising, 2000-2001; 2002-03 Curriculum, 2000-2001; 2002-03 Placement, 1999-2001; 2002-03

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University Service Appointments and Promotions Committee 2007- Grievance, 2004-5 FAS A&P Committee Member, Committee on Italian Studies, Fall 2002- Participant, “Teaching Nineteenth-Century Poetry in a Transatlantic Context,” Colloquium on poetry for AP teachers, Oct. 2002 Participant, “Reading 19th-Century Poetry In England And the United States,” Colloquium on poetry for AP teachers, April 2001 Department and University Service--Harvard Briggs Prize Committee, 1995-96 Graduate Admissions , 1996-98 Graduate Steering Committee, 1997-8 Ruskin Essay Prize Committee, 1995-1998 Senior Honors Exam, 1995-1998 Twentieth-Century Search Committee, 1996-1997 Undergraduate Steering Committee, 1996-1997 Teaching Interests Nineteenth-century literature and society Victorian poetry The nineteenth-century novel Art theory and historiography: Winckelmann to Bourdieu Art and literature in England, 1780-1890 Modernism Classes Taught Rutgers--undergraduate British Writers II (1800-) Abroad in the Nineteenth Century (seminar) Victorian Poetry Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature Principles of Literary Study Victorian Literature The Past as Crisis (seminar) Rutgers-graduate Culture of Art: Fantasy and Fragmentation in the 19th Century Looking Away: Fantasies of the Foreign Nineteenth-Century Novel Nineteenth-Century Literature and Society Harvard-Undergraduate Sophomore Seminar (introduction to literary studies) Culture of Art: The Artist in England From Reynolds to Joyce Late-19th Century Literature and Society

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Mid-Nineteenth Century Novel and Society James Joyce Modernism Henry James (also: undergraduate theses on Forster, James, Joyce, and Wharton) Harvard-graduate Hardy, James, Wilde, and Conrad: The Novel and the End of the 19th Century Culture of Art Columbia Literature Humanities Graduate Supervision Examinations Committees In Progress

Jesse Hoffmann (long nineteenth century) John Savarese (long nineteenth century) Completed Anne Keefe (ekphrasis) Patrick Jehle (long nineteenth century) Sean Barry (minor field: aesthetic and ethics) Alia Habib (major field: nineteenth-century literature) Sarah Alexander (major field: nineteenth-century literature) Nellickal Jacob (major field: nineteenth-century literature) Kristie Allen (Period: 1789-1925) Sharon McGrady (Period: 1789-1914) Krista Walkes (Genre Imperial Romance) Megan Ward (Period: 1789-1914) Abigail Wile (Author: Henry James) Vera Eliasova (period: 1789-1925) Elizabeth Ho (period: 1789-1925) Jennifer Worley (period: 1789-1925) Doctoral Completed Megan Ward, “Feeling Middle Class: Sensory Perception in Victorian Literature” Jason Rudy (Rutgers), “Lyric Community: Victorian Poetics of Mediation, 1830- 1898,” member of thesis committee ,completed, 2004 Aviva Briefel, (Harvard) “Counterproductions: Gender and Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Narrative” member of thesis committee, completed 2000 Abby Wolf (Harvard), “Literal Limits: The Female Body, National Representation, and British Narratives of Empire,” member of thesis committee, completed1999 Lisa Hamilton (Harvard), “Myths of Recognizability: The Signifying Body in the Nineteenth-Century Novel,” member of thesis committee, completed 1998 David Berry (Harvard), “The Body of Art: Style and Skepticism in Pater,” member of thesis committee, completed 1998 In progress

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Reader: Sarah Alexander Nellickal Jacob Director: Patrick Jehle Languages Fluent: French, Spanish; reading knowledge: Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese