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Rosemary Jann
Professor; Associate Director
Rosemary Jann holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Her main area of expertise is nineteenth-century England, and she teaches a range of Victorian prose, poetry, and fiction, in addition to various courses in literary analysis and research methods required of undergraduate and graduate students. As a scholar, her first book (The Art and Science of Victorian History, 1985) examined Victorian historical writing for the ways its literary strategies enabled historians to negotiate the intellectual and moral dilemmas characteristic of their age. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Detecting Social Order , published in 1995, is aimed at teaching a student audience how to read popular literature for its ideological as well as literary messages concerning class and gender. She has recently edited an edition of Edwin Abbott’s Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions for the Oxford World Classics series. Her current work concerns the ways in which different groups portrayed themselves and rival classes in order to advance their own claims for status in the period 1880-1915.Email:
Phone: 703.993.3248
Office: Robinson Hall A 425
Department Affiliations: Honors Program
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