Office Location: 308 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: kathy.psomiades@duke.edu
Web Page: https://duke.box.com/s/39s38b81t5k6qd1scnmpu11r5na3y487

Teaching (Spring, 2026):

• English 890t.01, Tutorial in sp topics Synopsis

  Allen 306, Tu 12:00 PM-02:30 PM

Office Hours:

Fall '25 Semester:

Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 (308 Allen)

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University

Specialties:

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.

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Psomiades, KA. "Thinking in Time." Victorian Literature and Culture 53.2 (January, 2025): 283-286. [doi]
2. Psomiades, KA. Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel and Sexual Modernity.  Oxford University Press, June 2023.
3. Psomiades, KA. "What does it mean to periodize a theory? three feminist encounters with theories of the nineteenth century." Criticism 61.4 (September, 2019): 443-459. [doi]
4. Psomiades, KA. "Anthropology and classical evolutionism." Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature.  2019. 389-400. [doi]  [abs]
5. Psomiades, KA. "Real Domesticity." Novel 51.3Duke University Press, (November, 2018): 533-537. [doi]