Faculty Directory
Rachel Teukolsky
Assistant Professor of English
Contact:
151 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-6413
rkt3@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Wednesday 1:45-4 and Thursday 8:45-9:30
Educational History:
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
B.A. Harvard University
Research Interests:
19th and early 20th Century British literature and culture; literature and the visual arts; Victorian non-fiction prose; Aestheticism and Decadence; travel writing; history and theory of sexuality; cultural studies
Awards:
Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Individual Faculty Grant, Fall 2006
Berkeley English Department Full-Year Fellowship, 2003-2004
Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fellowship, 2002-2003
Mellon Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 2000-2001
Berkeley Humanities Research Grant, Summer 2001
UC Berkeley Regents-Intern Fellowship, 1996-1998
Mellon First-Year Fellowship, 1996-1997
Major Publications:
The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and the Rise of Modernism (in progress)
Mapping Late-Victorian Counterculture: Sex, Geography, Utopia (in progress)
Other Publications:
"Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics" (forthcoming, _PMLA_)
"'This Sublime Musayum': Looking at Art at the Great Exhibition." In Victorian Prism:
Refractions of the Crystal Palace , eds. James Buzard, Joe Childers, and Eileen Gillooly (forthcoming, Univ. of Virginia).
"The Politics of Formalist Art Criticism: Pater's 'School of Giorgione.'" in Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire, eds. Laurel Brake, Lesley Higgins, and Carolyn Williams (Greensboro: ELT Press, 2002).
Entries on Oscar Wilde and three minor Victorian aesthetic philosophers for the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002).
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