Profile:
Amanda Anderson received her Ph.D. from Cornell University and taught at the University of Illinois before coming to Hopkins in 1999. She has been the Caroline Donovan Professor of English Literature since 2002 and is currently Chair of the department. She specializes in Victorian literature and contemporary literary, cultural, and political theory. Her work on the Victorian period has focused on the relation between forms of modern thought and knowledge (across both literature and the human sciences) and understandings of selfhood, social life, and ethics. She is the author of The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (Princeton, 2006); The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton, 2001); and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell, 1993). She has also co-edited, with Joseph Valente, Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (Princeton, 2002). At Hopkins Anderson's recent graduate teaching has included courses on forms of argument in contemporary theory; Victorian internationalism; Victorian realism; and ethics and aesthetics in Victorian literature. At the undergraduate level she teaches literary theory and a variety of topics in nineteenth-century literature. Curriculum Vitae |
