A.B.            Harvard College

M. Phil.      Columbia University

Ph.D.         Columbia University

Professor Kurnick’s scholarly writing includes "What Does Jamesian Style Want?" in Henry James Review, “Empty Houses: Thackeray’s Theater of Interiority” in Victorian Studies and “An Erotics of Detachment: Middlemarch and Novel-Reading as Critical Practice” in ELH. His essay “‘Horrible Impossible’: Henry James’s Awkward Stage” in The Henry James Review received the Leon Edel Prize for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. His current project is a study of the frustrated theatrical ambition of major novelists, including William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Henry James, and James Joyce.