Claire Jarvis, Assistant Professor Primary Office: 460-309 At Stanford Since: 2008 Email: cjarvis@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Masterpieces of British Literature II Degrees: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2008 M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2004 M.A., Boston University, 2000 B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998 |
Claire Jarvis studies Victorian literature with emphasis on the novel and theories of sexuality. Her current project is titled Making Scenes: Supersensual Masochism and Victorian Literature, and examines the relationship between masochism and companionate marriage in novels by Emily Brontë, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy, and in representations of Queen Victoria. Her other research interests include sensation fiction, New Woman novels, the long Victorian poem, nineteenth-century material culture, Henry James and Barbara Pym.
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