Research Interests for Kathy A. Psomiades

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.

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Recent Publications

1. Psomiades, KA, Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel and Sexual Modernity (June, 2023), Oxford University Press
2. Psomiades, KA, What does it mean to periodize a theory? three feminist encounters with theories of the nineteenth century, Criticism, vol. 61 no. 4 (September, 2019), pp. 443-459 [doi]
3. Psomiades, KA, Anthropology and classical evolutionism, in The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature (January, 2019), pp. 389-400, ISBN 9780429018183 [doi] [abs]
4. Psomiades, KA, Real Domesticity, Novel, vol. 51 no. 3 (November, 2018), pp. 533-537, Duke University Press [doi]
5. Psomiades, KA, Hidden Meaning: Andrew Lang, H. Rider Haggard, Sigmund Freud, and Interpretation, Romanticism on the Net no. 64 (January, 2014), Consortium Erudit [doi] [abs]