Office Location: 316A Allen Bldg
Office Phone: +1 919 684-5538
Email Address: kpsomiad@duke.edu

Office Hours:

MW 4:05-5:20

Education and Interests:

Ph.D., Yale University

British Literature; Victorian Literature

Kathy Psomiades works on Victorian literature and culture. She is author of Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism (Stanford, 1997), and co-editor, with Talia Schaffer of Women and British Aestheticism (Virginia, 1999). She has been the recipient of an NEH fellowship, and a Kaneb award for undergraduate teaching at the University of Notre Dame. Her current book project, Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel, examines the intersections between the novel and anthropology in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. "He Knew He Was Right: The Sensational Tyranny of the Sexual Contract and the Problem of Liberal Progress." The Politics of Gender in Trollope. Ed. H.M Marwick and Deborah Morse eds.. Ashgate, 2008.
2. "'The Lady of Shalott' and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry." The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. Ed. Joseph Bristow. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 25-45.
3. "Heterosexual Exchange and Other Victorian Fictions: The Eustace Diamonds and Victorian Anthropology." Novel 33.1 (1999): 93-118.
4. T. Schaffer and K. Psomiades, eds.. Women and British Aestheticism.  Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999.
5. "Still Burning from this Strangling Embrace: Vernon Lee on Desire and Aesthetics." Victorian Sexual Dissidence. Ed. Richard Dellamora. U of Chicago P, 1999. 21-41.

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