Director:  Susan Hiner (French and Francophone Studies);

Participating Faculty: Wendy Graham (English), Paul Kane^b (English), Brian Lukacher (Art), Lydia Murdoch^b (History), Susan Zlotnick^ab (English).

^b On leave 2021/22, second semester

^ab On leave 2021/22

The interdepartmental program in Victorian Studies is designed to enable students to combine courses offered in several departments with independent work and, through an interdisciplinary approach, to examine the assumptions, ideas, ideals, institutions, society, and culture of nineteenth-century Britain, a complex society undergoing rapid transition at the height of global power.

Programs

Major

• •  Victorian Studies Major

Correlate Sequence in Victorian Studies

• •  Victorian Studies Correlate Sequence

Courses

Victorian Studies

• •  VICT 150 - Revolution, Evolution, and the Global Nineteenth Century
• •  VICT 152 - Smallpox: The Biology and History of a Disease
• •  VICT 249 - Victorian Literature
• •  VICT 254 - Victorian Britain
• •  VICT 255 - Nineteenth-Century British Novels
• •  VICT 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  VICT 298 - Independent Work
• •  VICT 300 - Thesis
• •  VICT 351 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
• •  VICT 354 - History and the Politics of Grief
• •  VICT 355 - Childhood and Children in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• •  VICT 399 - Senior Independent Work