Dr. Alexandra Valint
Professor
Bio
Alexandra Valint teaches and writes about Victorian literature, narrative theory, the gothic, disability studies, children鈥檚 literature, and young adult literature. Her book Narrative Bonds: The Victorian Multi-Narrator Novel was published in 2021 by the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series at Ohio State University Press. It examines Victorian novels that employ multiple narrators by authors such as Charles Dickens, Emily Bront毛, Wilkie Collins, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Her next book project analyzes the use of mobility aids鈥攅specially wheelchairs and crutches鈥攊n Victorian and Edwardian novels like The Secret Garden, The Law and the Lady, and Treasure Island. She received an NEH Summer Stipend in 2022 to work on this book project. She regularly teaches a course on the Victorian gothic in 草榴社区鈥檚 British Studies Program in London, England.
Order Narrative Bonds here: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814214633.html
- English Literature (PHD) - University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus (2012)
- English Literature (BA) - University of Virginia (2004)
Undergraduate Courses
ENG 200: Introduction to Drama
ENG 203: World Literature
ENG 340: Analysis of Literature
ENG 351: British Literature 2
ENG 418: Adolescent Literature
ENG 445: Studies in Children鈥檚 and Young Adult Literature
ENG 463: Victorian Fiction and Prose
ENG 464: Survey of the British Novel to 1900
Graduate Courses
ENG 640: Critical Reading and Methods in English
ENG 644: Literary Theory (鈥淚ntroduction to Narrative Theory鈥�)
ENG 669: Topics in British Literature (鈥淭he Victorian Short Story鈥�)
ENG 764: Victorianism (鈥淧oints of View: Victorian Narrators and Readers鈥�)
ENG 764: Victorianism (鈥淪trange Cases: The Victorian Gothic鈥�)
ENG 764: Victorianism (鈥淢apping Dickens鈥�)
ENG 764: Victorianism (鈥淲hodunit: Victorian Detective Fiction鈥�)
ENG 764: Victorianism (鈥淰ictorian Disability鈥�)
Study Abroad鈥擝ritish Studies Program in London, England
ENG 498/598: British Studies (鈥淭he London Underground: The Victorian Gothic鈥�)
- Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel, 2021
- 鈥淭o a Joyous Land鈥�: Nature and Gender in Kate Greenaway鈥檚 The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods, 2023
- "Man and Machinery Blended in One": Dexter鈥檚 Wheelchair and the Victorian Railway in Wilkie Collins鈥檚 The Law and the Lady, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2021,
- Madeira and Jane Eyre's Colonial Inheritance , Victorian Literature and Culture, 2017,
- "Mind to Mind": The Gothic Loss of Privacy in the Twilight Saga and Chaos Walking, New Directions in Children鈥檚 Gothic: Debatable Lands, 2017
- Accepting Ad猫le in Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 Jane Eyre, Dickens Studies Annual, 2016
- 鈥淲heel Me Over There!鈥�: Disability and Colin鈥檚 Wheelchair in The Secret Garden, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2016,
- The Child's Resistance to Adulthood in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: Refusing to Parrot, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 2015
- Mischief, Gender, and Empire: Raising Imperial Bachelors and Spinsters in Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2011,
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- North American Victorian Studies Association
- Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
- The International Society for the Study of Narrative
- Children's Literature Association