Kimberly J Stern Scholar in Residence
Office Location: 501 Allen Building
Office Phone: (919) 684-2252
Email Address: ks147@duke.edu
- Office Hours:
- By appointment.
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Ph.D. Princeton University
B.A. Reed College
Kimberly J. Stern specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and is particularly interested in the politics of literary culture. She has published articles in Life Writing and Prose Studies, and is currently working on two book projects. The first (Joining the Club: Gender and the Social Life of Nineteenth-Century Criticism) traces the professional development of the female critic over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first full-length attempt at a "prehistory" of the feminist critic, this book proposes that gender did not suddenly emerge as a consideration for critics in the twentieth century but was actually crucial to shaping the critical tradition from the very beginning.
The second (Victorian Bohemia: Politics and Subculture in British Literature) examines representations of bohemia in British novels, poetry, and drama, focusing especially on the political significance of nineteenth-century "countercultures." An article related to this project, "Rule Bohemia: The Cosmopolitics of Subculture in George Du Maurier’s Trilby," is forthcoming in Victorian Literature and Culture.