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English

Katherine Charles

Assistant Professor of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature

 

I teach and study transatlantic literature of the long eighteenth-century, with a special focus on the novel and women’s writing. 

 

My current project, “Stories inside the Novel: Interpolated Tales      and Social Difference during the Eighteenth Century,” argues that interpolated tales, or intact tales within a tale, had a crucial role to play in teaching early novel readers the concept of fictionality and in shaping how novels treated difference, especially across the social boundaries of gender, class, and race.

 

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Education

 

PhD: University of California, Los Angeles, 2016

 

MPhil: University of Cambridge, 2003

 

AB: Princeton University, 2002

Research

 

“Speaking Across: Literary Form and Speech in Obi; Or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack” (forthcoming), The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 62.1 (Spring 2021).  

 

“Meeting Me: Charles Dickens’s Moments of Self-Encounter,” Dickens Studies Annual 49.1 (March 2018): 47–69.

 

“Staging Sociability in The Excursion: Frances Brooke, David Garrick, and the King’s Theatre Coterie,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 27.2 (Winter 2015): 257–284.

 

Teaching

 

ENG 394: Special Topics, Jane Austen Inc.

ENG 394: The Rise of the Novel and its Discontents

ENG 320: The Eighteenth Century: Oriental Tales

ENG 323: The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Horror, at Home and Abroad

ENG 320: The Eighteenth Century: “Lost at Sea”

ENG 207: Introduction to British Literature and Culture I

ENG 208: Introduction to British Literature and Culture II

ENG 101: Literature and Composition, “Americans in Paris”

FYS: Jane Austen and Fan Culture