Faculty Profile

B.A., California (Santa Cruz); M.A., SUNY at Buffalo; Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo

Professor Kucich is the author of Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton University Press, 2006); The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell University Press, 1994); Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens (University of California Press, 1987); Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (University of Georgia Press, 1981). He also edited Fictions of Empire (Houghton-Mifflin, 2002), and co-edited Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship; National Humanities Endowment Fellowship; Donald Gray Prize for Best Essay in Victorian Studies (North American Victorian Studies Association)

Issues and Problems in Literary Theory

Cultural Logics: Victorian, Modern, and Postmodern

Twentieth-Century Literature of British Imperialism, 1880-1980

History of Literary Theory II: Romanticism to Present

Nineteenth-Century Organic Social Formations (seminar)