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Rohan Maitzen

Associate Professor

RohanMaitzen
Wideningtheskirtsoflight

Email: rohan.maitzen@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-6921
Mailing Address: 
Room 3185, McCain Building, 6135 University Avenue
PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Victorian literature
  • Gender studies
  • Ethical criticism
  • Early 20th century women's fiction
  • Detective fiction


Education

  • BA (UBC)
  • MA, PhD (Cornell)

Research and Writing

My early research and publications focused on intersections between historical and fictional writing in 19th-century Britain. The major result of this work was my first book,听Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing. I have also done research drawing together contemporary work on fiction and ethics and Victorian theorizing about the novel; this work led to my essays 鈥淭he Soul of Art: Victorian Ethical Criticism鈥 and 鈥淭he Moral Life of聽Middlemarch: Martha Nussbaum and George Eliot鈥檚 Philosophical Fiction, as well as to my second book, the anthology聽The Victorian Art of Fiction: 19th-Century Essays on the Novel. For the past few years I have been particularly interested in bridging the divide between academic criticism and the broader sphere of reading and critical inquiry. From 2010 to 2017 I was an editor and regular contributor at the online literary journal聽Open Letters Monthly; I have also published reviews and essays in other venues including the聽Times Literary Supplement,听Quill & Quire,听Canadian Notes and Queries, and聽The Los Angeles Review of Books. I am currently working on a book project about 19th- and early 20th-century women writers of 鈥榥ovels with a purpose.鈥 For more information, including a full list of my published essays and reviews and my full curriculum vitae, visit .

Teaching

My main undergraduate and graduate teaching area is Victorian literature. In addition to our two classes on the 19th-century novel, I regularly offer upper-level seminars on the Victorian 鈥榳oman question鈥 and Victorian 鈥榮ensation fiction,鈥 and graduate seminars on Victorian women writers and George Eliot. Another main teaching interest of mine is mystery and detective fiction: I frequently offer both a survey of developments in the genre from Poe to the present and an upper-level seminar focused more narrowly on women and detective fiction. I have supervised MA and Ph.D. theses on a wide range of 19th-century British literature from Jane Austen to Wilkie Collins.

Selected Publications

  • Widening the Skirts of Light: Essays on George Eliot (Pier Glass Press, 2019)
  • Middlemarch for Book Clubs (Pier Glass Press, 2016)
  • Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing聽(Garland, 1998).
  • The Victorian Art of Fiction: 19th-Century Essays on the Novel. (Broadview, 2009).
  • 'The Soul of Art': Understanding Victorian Ethical Criticism,"聽English Studies in Canada聽聽31:2-3 (June-September 2005).
  • 鈥淭he Moral Life of聽Middlemarch: Martha Nussbaum and George Eliot鈥檚 Philosophical Fiction.鈥澛Philosophy and Literature聽30:1 (April 2006).
  • 鈥淪cholarship 2.0: Blogging and/as Academic Practice.鈥澛犅17:3 (September 2012).