English Department Faculty

Megan Ward
Visiting professor of English

Curriculum vitae

Education
Rutgers University, M.A., Ph.D.
University of Oxford, M.Phil
 Lawrence University, magna cum laude, B.A.

Interests
Victorian literature and culture
History of the novel
Literature, science and technology
Victorian material culture.

Courses
Romanticism
The Victorian Age
Major British Writers II
Literary Analysis

Recent publications
“‘A Charm in Those Fingers’: Patterns, Taste, and the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine,Victorian Periodicals Review (Fall 2008).

“William Morris’s Conditional Moment,” an invited submission for a special issue, “Memory and Materiality,” RaVon: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, a peer-reviewed online journal (Forthcoming).

 “The Woodlanders and the Cultivation of Realism,” Studies in English Literature.  Revise and Resubmit (revision sent July 2008).