Department of English

Professor Kate Flint taught at Bristol and Oxford Universities before moving to Rutgers in 2001. Her research spans the C19th and C20th, and is both interdisciplinary and transatlantic in focus. Trained at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, her areas of specialization include Victorian and early twentieth-century cultural and literary history, visual culture, women's writing, gender studies, and transatlantic studies. Most recently, Professor Flint has published The Transatlantic Indian 1776-1930 (Princeton University Press, 2008), which looks at the two-way relations between Native Americans and the British in the long C19th, exploring questions of modernity, nationhood, performance, popular culture, and the impacts of travel. Her previous works include The Victorians and The Visual Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (Oxford University Press, 1993), both of which won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay prize, as well as Dickens (Harvester, 1985). She is General Editor of the Victorian volume of the New Cambridge History of English Literature (forthcoming 2010) and has co-edited Culture, Landscape and the Environment (Oxford University Press, 2000), and edited Victorian Love Stories (Oxford University Press, 1996) as well as a number of works by Dickens, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and Anthony Trollope for Penguin Classics and OUP World's Classics. Additionally, Professor Flint has published articles on Victorian, modernist and contemporary fiction, and on women's writing and feminist theory, painting, and cultural history. She has recently held Fellowships at the National Humanities Center and the Huntington Library, San Marino, and is working on a new book provisionally entitled "Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination." Her other current research project explores connections between gender, subjectivity, and literary and artistic form between 1885-1930: an essay related to this, “ ‘The hour of pink twilight:’  lesbian poetics and the politics of queer encounter in the fin-de-siècle street is forthcoming in Victorian Studies (summer 2009).

Chair of the English Department

• "Revisiting A Literature of Their Own"
  Journal of Victorian Culture, 2006
• "Why 'Victorian'?: Response"
  Victorian Studies, Winter 2005
• "Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century"
  SEL: Studies in English Literature 44.4, Autumn 2004
• "Painting memory"
  Textual Practice 17.3, 2003

• Crossing Cultures (Contemporary Twentieth-Century Writing)
• Fin de Siècle Writing
• Freaks and Monsters
• Nineteenth Century Women Writers
• Obsession
• Twentieth Century American Road Cultures
• Victorian Grotesques
• Writing and Photography

• Introduction to Advanced Research
• Introduction to Material Culture in the Victorian Period
• Material Fictions
• Visual Culture and Victorian Writing
• Writing and Photography

• Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2007-8
• Andrew Mellon short-term fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, 2008

• Co-Coordinator, Atlantic Studies Working Group, Center for Cultural Analysis, 2008-

• "David Kurnick: New Faculty Profile" by Kate Flint (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 2)
• "Intersections" by Kate Flint (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 2)
• "Azar Nafisi" by Kate Flint (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)