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Department of Language and Literature
Education Ph.D., Cornell University | 2005
Professor Amir’s areas of specialization include Victorian literature, nineteenth-century fiction, and the novel as genre. His scholarship focuses on the representation of class and social mobility in Victorian fiction, particularly novels of the 1860s and 1870s, as well as the complex relationship between gossip and narrative.
“‘So Delightful a Plot’: Lies, Gossip, and the Narration of Social Advancement in The Eustace Diamonds.” Victorian Literature and Culture 36.1 (2008). 187-204. “‘Drawn Almost into Frightful Neighborhood’: England, France, and the Problem of National Identity in Wordsworth’s Sonnets.” Midwest Modern Language Association convention: Chicago, IL (November 2006). “Interpreting the Interpretive Impasse of Hopkins’s ‘Spring and Fall.’” Annual conference sponsored by the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur les Langues, les Littératures, la Lecture et L’Élaboration de la Pensée (“The Plurality of Interpretation”): Université de Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France (March 2006). Invited panelist, “Graduate Student Teaching and the Future Professoriate.” Cornell Consortium for Writing in the Disciplines: Ithaca, NY (June 2003). “‘Not Much of an Explanation’: Victorian Onomastics and the (Mis)naming of the Middle-Class Woman in Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters.” Modern Language Association convention: Washington, DC (December 2000).
LITR 257 | British Literature I
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