Faculty

Rachel Ablow

Assistant Professor
Office: 431 Clemens
Phone number: 645-2575 x1009
E-mail address: rablow@buffalo.edu

 

Interests:

Victorian literature and culture; history of the novel; gender and sexuality; history of the emotions.

Courses taught:

  • Undergraduate: Introduction to Victorian Literature, The Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Victorian Sentimentality, The Gothic, The Brontes, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Victorian Sexualities
  • Graduate: Introduction to Literary Theory, Victorian Sympathy, Victorian Violence

Work in progress:

  • Violent Language and Victorian Literature. Book in progress.

Selected publications:


The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot. (August, 2007) Stanford University Press
Victorian Feeling and the Victorian Novel. Solicited Article. Literature Compass 4.1 (January, 2007): 298-316.
Wilkie Collins. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The Woman in White. Novel: A Forum on Fiction 37 (Fall
2003/Spring 2004): 158-80.
Labors of Love: The Sympathetic Subjects of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield. Dickens Studies Annual 31
(2002): 23-46.
David Copperfield. Encyclopedia of the Novel. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)