Graduate Student, English
Ph.D. Candidate, Teaching Fellow
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As an undergraduate student of biological anthropology, my research focused on kinship systems, mating behavior, dominance hierarchies and the dynamics of violent intraspecies competition in non-human primates. As a graduate student of English, my research focuses on very similar topics in the nineteenth-century British and American novel, particularly the novel of manners. I’m interested most immediately in how the novel depicts social violence, that less corporal but no less exigent form of hostility that both shapes and fuels much narrative of the period. Other interests include conduct literature, nineteenth-century zoological writing and "drawing-room naturalism.”
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