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Faculty Profile
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| John Kucich has been at Rutgers since 2006, when he was hired at the rank of Professor II. After twenty-seven years at the University of Michigan, he was drawn to Rutgers by the English Department's concentration of distinguished scholars in his field, Victorian studies, which is among the strongest in the country. He is the author of four books on Victorian literature and culture: Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Georgia, 1981), Repression in Victorian Fiction (California, 1987), The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell, 1994), and Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton, 2007). He has edited, with Dianne F. Sadoff, Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000), and he is the editor of Fictions of Empire (Houghton-Mifflin, 2002). He also co-edited Volume Three, 1820-1880 (Oxford, 2011), in Oxford University Press's landmark project, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, a twelve-volume series that is likely to be the standard reference work for decades. He has written dozens of articles on Victorian literature and culture, which have appeared in the top journals in his field as well as in the most eminent generalist journals in literary studies, including two each in PMLA and ELH. One of these, an essay on Rudyard Kipling, was awarded the "Best Essay in Victorian Studies" prize for 2005 by the field's flagship organization, the North American Victorian Studies Association. Studies in English Literature recently commissioned him to write their much-consulted annual review of nineteenth-century scholarship for 2008. He sits on the advisory boards of Victorian Studies and Nineteenth-Century Literature, and he is currently a member of the Editorial Board at PMLA. He has won major fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center. | |||||
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| PhD, University at Buffalo MA, University at Buffalo BA, University of California, Santa Cruz |
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"I used to try to interest students in Victorian culture by proving that it resembles our own, despite appearances to the contrary. Now I try to show them that it was even more different than they think. " |
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