CURRICULUM VITAE
Nancy Armstrong
Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English at Trinity College
[email protected]
Department of English
314 Allen Building
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Office: 919-613-6827
Home: 919-401-4023
Education:
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Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
B.A., S.U.N.Y. Buffalo with Latin honors (English, biology)
Wellesley College (biology)
Professional Appointments:
2009Duke University, Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman
Professor of English
2008-09
Duke University, Professor of English
1992-08
Brown University, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of
Comparative Literature, Modern Culture and Media,
English, and Gender Studies
fall 1991:
Brown University, Visiting Professor of Comparative
Literature
1987-1992:
University of Minnesota, Professor of Comparative
Literature
1984-1986:
Wayne State University, Associate Professor
l977-l983:
Wayne State University, Assistant Professor
Academic Honors, Research Grants, Fellowships, Visiting Professorships
May 2015-2018:
Trinity College Deans’ office grant: “The Novel Project”
($25,000 per annum for 3 years, renewable)
May 2014-2015:
PAL/FHI Mellon Humanities Grant ($26,000)
April 2009:
Lansdowne Professor, University of Victoria
November 2005:
Visiting Professor, English, Duke University
Spring 2001-2002: Visiting Professor, Program in Literature and Cultural
History, Liverpool John Moores University (faculty
seminars)
Spring 1994:
Scholar in Residence, Alice F. Holmes Institute,
University of Kansas
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Spring 1992:
Spring 1991:
Spring l990:
spring 1990:
fall 1989:
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Fall l986:
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fall l984:
spring l984:
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l977-l978:
ACLS Senior Fellow,
Research Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan
Ward-Phillips Lectureship, University of Notre Dame
Fulbright and Gulbenkian travel grants
Wesleyan University, Visiting Professor of English
Yale University, Visiting Professor of English
Rockefeller Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan
Resident Fellow, Center for the Study of Women in
Society, University of Oregon
Career Development Chair, Wayne State University
U.C., San Diego, Visiting Associate Professor
S.U.N.Y., Buffalo, Visiting Associate Professor
ACLS Senior Fellow
American Association of University Women Educational
Foundation Fellow
Josephine Nevins Keal Faculty Fellow
Wayne State University Summer Research Award
Wayne State University Summer Research Award
Fulbright-Hayes Junior Lecturer, University of Coimbra,
Portugal
Books and Edited Volumes:
authored with Leonard Tennenhouse. “The Conversion Effect: Aspects of the
American Network Novel.” Philadelphia: U Penn Press, forthcoming 2016.
edited with Warren Montag. “The Future of the Human,” a special issue of the journal
differences 20.2-3 (2009).
authored. How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism, 1719-1900 (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2005).
edited with David Kasten et al. Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2006). (volumes on 18th and 19th century British
literature.)
authored. Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
authored with Leonard Tennenhouse. The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual
Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
edited with Leonard Tennenhouse. The Violence of Representation: Essays in
Literature and the History of Violence (London: Routledge,1989, 2014).
authored. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1987). Spanish translation (Madrid: Catédra, 1991).
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edited with Leonard Tennenhouse. The Ideology of Conduct: Essays in Literature and
the History of Sexuality (London: Methuen, l987, 2014).
edited. "Literature as Women's History, I and II." Genre 19.4 and 20.2 (1986-87).
edited. "The Rhetoric of Violence." Semiotica 54 (1985).
Chapters in Books:
with Leonard Tennenhouse. “How to Imagine Community without Property.” Volume
de Homenagem a Maria Irene Ramalho Santos: American Literature in a Comparative
Context. Impressa da Universidade de Coimbra, 27 ms. pages.
with Leonard Tennenhouse. “The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic
Fiction.” A Companion to the English Novel. Ed. Stephen Arata, J. Paul Hunter, and
Jennifer Wicke (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), pp. 103-120.
“A Gothic History of the British Novel.” Ed. Patrick Parrinder, New Directions in
the History of the Novel (London: Palgrave, 2014), pp. 103-120.
“The Sensation Novel.” The Oxford History of the British Novel. Ed. John Kucich
and Jenny Bourne Taylor (London: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 137-53.
“When Sexuality Meets Gender in the Victorian Novel.” The Cambridge Companion
to Victorian Fiction. Ed. Dierdre David (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010),
pp. 97-124.
“Afterword.” Modernist Star Maps. Ed. Jonathan Goldman and Aaron Jaffe. (Surrey:
Ashgate, 2010), pp. 237-44.
“1798: Mary Rowlanson and the Alien and Sedition Acts.” A New Literary History of
America. Ed. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollers (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2009).
“The Other Side of Modern Individualism: Locke and Defoe.” Individualism: The
Cultural Logic of Modernity. Ed. Zubin Meer (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield,
2009), pp. 111-120.
“The Gothic Austen.” A Companion to Jane Austen. Ed. Claudia Johnson and Claire
Tuite (London: Blackwell’s, 2009), pp. 237-48.
“Realism After Photography.” Adventures in Realism. Ed. Matthew Beaumont
(London: Blackwell’s, 2007), pp. 84-102.
“Image and Empire.” Visual Culture and Critical Theory: Empire, Asia, and the
Question of the Subject, volume I. Ed. Joyce C.H. Liu (Taiwan, 2007), pp. 39-52.
“Realism.” Ed., David Kasten et al, The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
(New York: Oxford UP, 2006).
"Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism." Ed. Franco Moretti, Il
Romanzo, Vol I. La Cultura del Romanzo (Einaudi, 2001), published in Italian and
Korean simultaneously, pp. 271-306. English Edition: The Novel, Vol. II (Princeton:
Princeton UP, 2006), 349-88.
“A Mind for Passion: Locke and Hutcheson on Desire.” Politics and the Passions,
1500-1850. Eds. Daniela Coli, Victoria Kahn, and Neil Saccamano (Princeton: Princeton
UP, 2005), pp. 131-50.
"What Feminism Did to Novel Studies." Ed. Ellen Rooney, The Cambridge
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Companion to Feminist Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006), pp. 99-118.
"Why a Good Man is Hard to Find in Victorian Fiction." Eds. Ana Gabriela Macedo
and Margarida Pereira, Identity and Cultural Translation, Vol. II of European Intertexts:
the Study of Women's Writing in English as Part of the European Fabric, general eds.,
Patsy Stoneman and Angela Leighton (London: Ashgate Press, 2005).
“Victorian Children’s Literature as Political Foreplay.” Introductory Preface to
Child’s Play: A Study of Victorian Children’s Literature (London: Edwin Mellen Press,
2004), xi-xvii.
“Captivity and Cultural Capital in the Atlantic World.” Revolutionary Histories:
Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism. Ed. W.M. Verhoeven (London: Palgrave, 2002), pp.
104-21.
“Writing Women and the Making of the Modern Middle Class.” Ed. Amanda
Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven. Cultural Correspondences: Essays on Epistolary Writing
(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001), pp. 29-50.
“Postscript: Contemporary Culturalism: How Victorian is It?” Ed. John Kucich
and Dianne Sadoff. Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth
Century (Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 2000), pp. 311-26.
“The Politics of Domesticating Culture, Then and Now.” Ed. Michael McKeon. The
Theory of the Novel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), pp. 467-75.
“Gender and the Victorian Novel.” Ed. Dierdre David. The Cambridge Companion
to the Victorian Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 97-124.
“Captivity and Cultural Capital.” Novel 31.1 (1998): 373-98.
“The Self Contained: Emma.” Ed. Laura Mooneyham White. Critical Essays on
Jane Austen (New York: G.K. Hall, 1998), Rpt of Desire and Domestic Fiction, pp. 14959.
"Reclassifying Clarissa: Fiction and the Making of the Modern Middle Class." Ed.
Edward Copeland and Carol Houlihan Flynn. The Clarissa Project, Vol. 9, The Critical
Commentary--New Commentaries (New York: AMS P, 1999).
"City Things: Photography and the Urbanization Process." Human, All Too Human:
Essays from the English Institute, 1994. Ed. Diana Fuss (New York: Routledge, 1996),
pp. 93-130.
"Chinese Women in a Comparative Perspective: A Response." Ed. Ellen Widmer and
Kang-i Sun Chang. Writing Women in Late Imperial China (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1997), pp. 397-422.
"Daughters." Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. Oxford Companion
to Women's Writing in the United States (New York: Oxford UP, 1996).
"Fatal Abstraction: The Death and Sinister Afterlife of the American Family." Ed.
Michael Ryan. Body Politics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994), pp. 18-31.
"Imperialist Nostalgia and Wuthering Heights." Ed. Linda Peterson. Wuthering
Heights: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism (Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1991), pp.
428-49.
"Some Call It Fiction: The Politics of Domesticity." Ed. Juliet Flower MacCannell.
The "Other" Perspective on Gender and Culture (New York: Columbia UP, 1990), pp.
59-84.
"Occidentalismo: una cuestión para el feminismo internacional. Feminismo Y Teoría
Del Discourso. Ed. Guilia Colaizzi. (Madrid:Catédra, 1990), pp. 29-44.
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with Leonard Tennenhouse. "Introduction: The Literature of Conduct, the Conduct of
Literature, and the Politics of Desire," The Ideology of Conduct: Essays in Literature and
the History of Sexuality (London: Methuen, l987). Rpt in Literature from 1400-1800, ed.
Larry Trudeau (Detroit: Gale Research, 2000).
"The Rise of the Domestic Woman." Ed. Armstrong and Tennenhouse. The Ideology
of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality (New York: Routledge,
1987); Rpt Feminism: Gender and Literary Studies. Ed. Robyn Warhol and Diane Price
Herndl. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991), rpt of Desire and Domestic
Fiction, pp. 59-95.
"Inside Greimas's Square: The Game of Semiotic Constraints in Jane Austen's
Fiction." Ed. Wendy Steiner. The Sign in Music and Literature (Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1979).
Refereed Journal Articles:
“Do Wasps Just Want to Have Fun?: Darwin and the Question of Variation.”
differences (forthcoming 2016), 29 ms. pages.
with Leonard Tennenhouse. “Recalling Cora: Family Resemblances in The Last of the
Mohicans.” American Literary History (forthcoming, 2016), 36 ms. pages.
with Leonard Tennenhouse. “Novels Before Nations: How Early US novels
Imagined Community.” Review of Comparative Literature/ Revue Canadienne de
Littérature Comparée, special issue, “Novel beyond Nation” (forthcoming, spring
2016): 1-17.
“Introduction: Property and Heterotopia.” A special issue: “Land and the Novel.”
Novel 49.1:1-5.
“The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction.” Contemporary Literature 55.3
(2014): 441-465.
“When Sympathy Fails.” SPELL: The Journal of Swiss Professors of English
Literature and Language (2014), pp. 27-49.
“Hawthorne on the Paradox of Popular Sovereignty.” Ed. Nancy Ruttenberg. Novel:
A Forum on Fiction: Is the Novel Democratic?” 47.1 (2013): 24-42.
“Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, or Selection in Relation to Sex, 24 February
1871.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino
Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web
“The Victorian Archive and Its Secret.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 34.12 (2012):
379-396.
“Gender Must Be Defended.” South Atlantic Quarterly: “Future Foucault,” 111.3
(2012): 529-548.
with Leonard Tennenhouse, “Sovereignty and the Form of Formlessness.” differences
20. 2-3: (2009): 148-78.
with Warren Montag. “Introduction: The Future of the Human.” differences 20: 2-3:
1-8 (2009).
with Leonard Tennenhouse. “The Problem of Population and the Form of the
American Novel.” ALH 20, 4 (2008): 667-685.
“Professing Disciplinarity.” Position paper for a special forum on Interdisciplinarity.
Victorian Review 33, 1 (2007): 11-14.
“How Novels Think.” / Humanities University Review 4.2 (2006).
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“Feminism and the Utopian Promise of Fiction.” differences 16.1 (2005): 1-23.
“Monarchy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts
22, 4 (2001): 495-536.
"Who's Afraid of the Cultural Turn?" differences 12.1 (2001): 17-49.
“Modernist Iconophobia and What it Did to Gender.” Modernism/Modernity 5
(1998): 47-75.
“Fiction in the Age of Photography.” Narrative 7 (1998): 37-55.
"Semiotics and Family History." American Journal of Semiotics 10.1-2 (1993): 13554.
"Why Daughters Die: The Racial Logic of American Sentimentalism." Yale Journal of
Criticism 7.2 (1994), pp. 1-24. Rpt Ed. Rosemary Marangoly George. Burning Down
the House: Recycling the Domestic (Boulder: Westview/Harper Collins, 1997).
with Leonard Tennenhouse. "A Novel Nation; or, How to Rethink Modern England
as an Emergent Culture." Modern Language Quarterly 54, 3(1993): 327-44.
with Leonard Tennenhouse. "Poststructuralism, and the Question of History."
Narrative 1, 1 (1993): 45-58.
"A brief genealogy of 'theme.'" Ed. Werner Sollors. Harvard English Studies 18
(1993), pp. 38-45.
with Leonard Tennenhouse. "The American Origins of the English Novel." American
Literary History 4, 3 (1992): 386-410.
"Emily's Ghost: the Cultural Politics of Victorian Fiction, Folklore, and Photography."
Novel 25.3 (1992): 245-67.
"The Nineteenth-Century Austen: A Turn in the History of Fear." Genre 23 (1990):
227-46.
"The Occidental Alice." differences 2, 2 (1990): 3-40. Rpt Contemporary Literary
Criticism and Cultural Studies, eds. Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer (New York:
Longman, 1998), pp. 536-64.
with Leonard Tennenhouse. "The Interior Difference: A Brief Genealogy of Dreams."
Eighteenth-Century Studies 23.4 (1990): 458-78.
"The Pornographic Effect: A Response." American Journal of Semiotics 7.1-2 (1990):
27-44.
with Leonard Tennenhouse. "Gender and the Work of Words." Cultural Critique 13
(1989): 229-78.
"The Gender Bind: Women and the Disciplines." Genders 3 (1988): 1-23.
"O Critico e a Meretriz da Cultura: A Teoria na América Pós-moderna." Revista
Critica De Ciencias Socais 24 (1988): 107-38.
"History in the House of Culture: Social Disorder and Domestic Fiction in Early
Victorian England." Poetics Today 7.4 (1986): 641-71.
"A Language of One's Own: Communication-Modeling Systems in Woolf's Mrs.
Dalloway." Language and Style 16 (l983): 343-60.
"Domesticating the foreign devil: structuralism in English letters a decade later."
Semiotics 42 (l982): 243-75.
"The Rise of Feminine Authority in the Novel." Novel 15.2 (1982): 127-45. Rpt in:
Ed. Mark Spilka and Caroline McCracken-Flesher. Why the Novel Matters: A
Postmodern Perplex (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990), pp. 94-112.
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"Emily Brontë In and Out of Her Time." Genre 15 (1982): 243-64. Rpt Ed. Richard
J. Dunn. Wuthering Heights (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 1990).
"Character, Closure, and Impressionist Fiction." Criticism 19.4 (1977): 317-37.
Book Reviews:
Blake Stimson, The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (Cambridge,
Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2006), Modernism/Modernity 14, 2 (2007): 382-4.
Margaret Cohen and Carolyn Dever, eds., The Inter-national Invention of the Novel
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002) in Translation and Literature 12 (2003):
299-303.
Gillian Brown, Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century
America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990; Anita Levy, Other Women: The
Writing of Race, Class, and Gender,1832-1898 (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1991; Jane Van Buren, The Modernist Madonna: Semiotics of the Maternal Metaphor
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989); and Ann Waltner, Adoption and the
Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press,
1990) in Signs 18. 2 (1993): 433-38.
John Kucich, Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and
Charles Dickens (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987) in Nineteenth Century
Literature 44.4 (1990): 556-60.
Robert A. Erikson, Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate inn Eighteenth Century
Fiction (Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne) (New York, AMS Press inc., 1986) in
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 22. 2 (1988-89): 264-68.
James H. Kavanagh, Emily Brontë (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, l985), and Shirley
Foster, Victorian Women's Freedom: Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual (Totowa,
N.J.: Barnes and Noble, l985) in Victorian Studies, 30, 2 (1987): 292-94.
John Maynard, Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality (New York: Cambridge University
Press, l984), and Don Richard Cox, ed. Sexuality and Victorian Literature (Knoxville,
The U Tennessee P, l984), in Victorian Studies 29.3 (l986): 483-85.
Mary Poovey, The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer (Chicago: U Chicago P, l984),
MLN 99 (1985), 1251-57.
Invited Papers and Colloquia (2000-2015):
“Imagining community without property.” Plenary talk. Cornell University, 2015.
“How American Novels Think Biopolitically.” Symposium: The Biopolitical Turn in
Literature. Duke University, 2015.
“Journal of Narrative Theory Dialogues: After Post-structuralism?” Invited lecture.
Eastern Michigan University, 2015.
“Aspects of the American Network Novel,” Graduate Students annual invited
Lecture. American University, 2015.
“Property Cannot Be Defended”: the Ground of American Fiction.” Endowed lecture,
Wake Forest University, 2014.
“’Property Cannot Be Defended”: the Ground of American Fiction.” Invited lecture,
English Department, Uppsala University, 2014.
“Do wasps just want to have fun?” High Seminar, English Department, Stockholm
University, 2014.
“Darwin’s Garden,” Comparative Literature annual endowed lecture, Texas Tech,
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University, 2014.
“The Biopolitical Jane Eyre,” Invited lecture and Faculty Worksop, Brigham Young
University, 2014.
“The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction,” Invited Lecture, University of Sidney,
2013. Master class, Department of English, University of Sydney, 2014.
“Jane Austen’s Network Novels.” Keynote lecture. Jane Austen Society Meeting.
University of North Carolina, 2013.
“When Sympathy Fails: The Affective Turn in Contemporary Literature,” Keynote
lecture. Society for Professors of English Language and Literature, University of
Lausanne, 2013. Master class, Doctoral Programs of the Swiss Universities, 2013.
“The Victorian Archive and its Secret,” Keynote address, The Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth Century Association, 2012.
“Tocqueville, Foucault, Hawthorne: The Paradox of Popular Sovereignty,” Plenary
lecture: “Is the Novel Democratic?” Stanford Center for the Novel, 2012.
“Darwin’s Uncodable Difference,” plenary lecture: “Systems of Life,” Huntington
Library, 2012.
“The Victorian Archive and Its Secret,” The Sarah Cutts Frerichs Lectureship in
Victorian Studies: a master seminar on the gothic novel, Brown University, 2012.
“A Gothic History of the British Novel.” Plenary lecture. Conference on Narrative
Domains, sponsored by Oxford University Press and the University of Reading, 2009.
“What is Contemporary Fiction?,” Invited lecture. English Department, UCLA, 2011.
“What Can We Do with Bare Life?,” Plenary Lecture, Symposium on René Girard,
October 2011.
“Inside the Outside of Liberal Society, Symposium on Governmentality, with Étienne
Balibar and Warren Montag, UC Santa Barbara, March 2011.
“What is Contemporary Fiction?,” University Lecture, Cornell University, February
2011.
“Captivity and the Question of Sovereignty.” Paper presented at The Society of Early
Americanists, 2009.
“Darwin’s Paradox.” Endowed lecture. Carnegie Mellon University, 2009.
“A Gothic History of the Novel,” Invited public lecture and faculty seminar, Center
for Social Theory, University of Kentucky, 2009.
“A Future without Theory?” Response to President Roth, Center for the Humanities,
Wesleyan University, 2009.
“Darwin’s Paradox.” University lectureship. Victoria University, 2009.
"Gender Must Be Defended.” Endowed public lecture and graduate student
symposium," University of Minnesota, March, 2008.
"Darwin's Paradox.” Endowed public lecture and symposium. Center for the
Humanities, Wesleyan University, September, 2008.
"Gender Must Be Defended.” Endowed Women's Studies lecture. University of
Maryland, Baltimore-Washington, November 2008.
"The Literary Darwin," Invited by the graduate program in English at Northeastern
University, 2008.
"The Literary Darwin," invited by the interdisciplinary19th-century studies circle at
Northwestern University, April, 2008.
“The Gothic Austen,” Invited lecture. Harvard University, 2007.
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“Gender Must Be Defended.” Invited lecture. UCLA, 2007.
“Charles Darwin, Novelist.” Invited lecture. Duke University, 2007.
“Charles Darwin, Novelist.” Invited lecture. University of Connecticut, 2007.
“The Gothic Darwin.” Lecture series on evolution. Temple University, 2006.
“Writing for Publication.” Graduate Student Symposium. University of Southern
California, 2006.
“The Dark Side of Modern Individualism,” Invited lecture. University of New
Hampshire, 2006.
“The Problem of Masculinity in Victorian Fiction.” Invited lecture. Englisches
Seminar, Universität Freiburg, 2006.
“The Dark Side of Modern Individualism.” Invited lecture, Duke University, 2005.
“The Politics of Incorporation at the Dawn of Individualism.” Invited paper, Clark
Library, UCLA, 2005.
“Publishing Literary Scholarship.” Symposium. University of Southern California,
2005.
“The Future of a Forum on Fiction.” Plenary address, conference on Humanities
Journals: Past and Future,” University of Virginia, 2005.
“Civilized Savagery: The Source of Violence in Victorian Fiction.” Keynote lecture,
conference on Violence and Recuperation, McGill University, 2005.
“Feminism, Fiction, and the Utopian Promise of Dracula.” Invited Lecture, Harvard
University, 2004.
“Feminism, Fiction, and the Utopian Promise of Dracula.” Invited Lecture, University
of South Dakota, 2004.
“What’s new in American feminism?” Faculty seminar (with Ellen Rooney),
University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2003.
“Feminism, Fiction, and the Utopian Promise of Dracula. Invited Lecture, University
of North Carolina-Greensboro, 2003.
"The Polygenic Imagination." Graduate Student/Faculty seminar, Stanford University,
2002.
"Why a Good Man is Hard to Find…" Memorial Lecture, Bryn Mawr College, 2002.
"How Novels Think," Lecture in honor of Homer O. Brown, UC Irvine, 2002.
"Vampire Nation," Strathclyde University, Scotland, 2002.
"Structuralism's Unifinished Business," invited lecture, Liverpool John Moores
University, 2002.
"Authenticity After Photography," graduate student-faculty seminar, Liverpool John
Moores University, 2002.
"How Novels Think," Harvard University Humanities Center, 2001.
"Why a Good Man is Hard to Find," Joseph Duffy memorial lecture, Notre Dame
University, 2001.
"Monarchy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Invited lecture, U British
Columbia, 2001.
"Why a Good Man is Hard to Find in Victorian Fiction," Pembroke Center
Conference, 2001.
"When Novels Made Nations," Invited Lecture, Glasgow University, 2001.
"Why a Good Man is Hard to Find," Invited Lecture, Liverpool John Moores
University, 2001.
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"Monarchy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Liverpool John Moores
University, 2001.
“Why a Good Man is Hard to Find in Victorian Literature.” Raney Memorial Lecture,
Vanderbilt University, fall 2000.
“Surviving the Photograph.” Roundtable Speaker, Princeton University, fall 2000.
Papers Read at Professional Meetings (since 2000):
“Why Teach Literature?,” Plenary talk, 2014 MLA.
“Early American Aspects of the Novel,” 2014 MLA.
“Liberty and Limits of Darwin’s Theory.” Keynote Lecture. Australian NineteenthCentury Literature Society. Macquarie University, Australia, 2013.
“The Transatlantic Impact on Domestic Fiction” (with Leonard Tennenhouse), 2013
MLA.
“Captivity and the Question of Sovereignty,” Society of Early Americanists, 2009.
“The Barbary Captivity Narrative and the Form of American Fiction.” Plenary
Lecture. Conference sponsored by ALH, University of Illinois, 2008.
“Gender Must be Defended.” Plenary Lecture. Conference on “Book Life.”
University of Malmö, Sweden, 2008.
“Evolution’s Other Narrative: The Literary Darwin.” Plenary Lecture. Conference on
“Making History: Rethinking Master Narratives,” Rutgers University, 2008.
“Gender Must Be Defended.” Plenary Lecture. Conference on ‘The Novel:
Democracy’s Form,” Sussex University, 2007.
Distinguished Interlocutor: Conference on the African Novel, Pittsburgh University,
2006.
“The Necessary Gothic,” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2006.
“On the Dark Side of Modern Individualism,” American Comparative Literature
Association, 2006.
“Publishing in Anglo-American Journals,” Roundtable speaker and workshop director.
Conference on publishing in English Studies, University of Freiburg, 2006.
“Illustration.” Respondent. Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of the
Novel, Stanford University, 2006.
“Image and Empire,” Plenary Lecture, Visual Studies Conference, Michigan State
University, 2003.
“Feminism, Fiction, and the Utopian Promise of Dracula,” Keynote Lecture, North
American Victorian Studies Association, 2003.
"The Object Dependency of Enlightenment Letters," MLA convention, 2002.
Respondent, conference on "The Rise of the Novel: A Comparative Assessment," The
Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University, 2002.
"Image and Empire: A Brief Genealogy of Visual Culture" and "How Novels Think,"
lectures and graduate student-faculty workshops, International Institute for Visual Theory
and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 2002.
"Structuralism's Unfinished Business," Plenary Lecture, Conference on American
Literature, University of Arizona, 2002.
"The Bad Subject," Modern Language Association, Comparative Eighteenth-century
Literature Division Meeting, 2001.
"Why a Good Man is Hard to Find," Canadian Victorian Studies Association, Plenary
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Lecture, 2001.
"Structuralism's Unfinished Business," Dartmouth Institute in American Studies,
Plenary Lecture, 2001.
"Malthusian Gothic," International Gothic Association Meeting," Keynote Speaker,
2001.
“Why a Good Man is Hard to Find in Victorian Fiction,” Plenary lecture, conference
on Nineteenth-Century Literature, UCLA, 2000
Roundtable speaker, “The Tensions of Interdisciplinarity: The Competing Claims of
Literature and History,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2000.
“When Novels Made Nations,” Plenary Lecture, Conference on The Romantic-Era
Novel, 1780-1840, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 1999.
“The Discourse Thing,” Plenary Lecture, Conference on Liberalism and Cultural
Studies,” Whitney Humanities Center, Yale, 1998.
Keynote Lecture, Annual Conference on Women Writers, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1998.
“History is in the Shot,” MLA Convention, 1997.
“Monarchy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Plenary talk, Queen
Victoria Symposium, Yale British Art Center, 1997.
“Captivity and Cultural Capital,” Plenary lecture, International EighteenthCentury Conference, University of Gronigen, the Netherlands, 1997.
“Fiction in the Age of Photography,” Plenary Lecture, Victorian Studies
Conference, CUNY, 1997.
“Fiction in the Age of Photography,” Keynote Lecture, International Narrative
Conference, University of Florida, 1997.
"The Picturesque Imperative," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism,
1997.
Editorial Positions:
1993Editor: Novel, 1995- .
1990Editorial Boards: differences, Cultural Critique, Victorian Studies,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Modern
Language Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, PMLA, NINES:
Network Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship,
Victoriographies: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1890-1914
1989-1991
Co-editor, Genders, 1989-1991.
Public Interviews:
Interview: “How the novel creates (not just reflects) reality,” with Marcus Smith,
“Thinking Aloud,” BYU Radio.
Interview: with Matthew Wickman, “Nancy Armstrong on Gender, Novels, and the
Afterlife of a Landmark Book,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piDC5A1AIH8.
Interview: with Frank Stasio, “Novel Worlds.” NPR “The State of Things,” April 2012.
Interview: How Novels Think and the role of novels in the contemporary world,
Swedish National Radio, March 2008.
Interview: “What’s the Word?” MLA radio NPR, on what the advent of photography
did to the relationship between words and things, February 2007.
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Roundtable: "Culture and the Middle Class." Nancy Armstrong, Judith Smith, and
Sanjay Joshi, Odyssey, NPR Chicago, December 17, 2002.
Roundtable: "Who are the Victorians and why do they appeal to us?" Nancy
Armstrong, Elaine Hadley, and Michel Faber, NPR Chicago, Odyssey, October 19, 2002.
"Interview/discussion, with Laura Marcus: Fiction in the Age of Photography, BBC
Radio 3, Night Waves, January 25, 2000.
Service:
Duke University
Member, Appointments, Tenure, and Promotions Committee (2014-2017)
Co-Convener, Faculty Research Seminar on the Contemporary Novel
Organizer, The Novel Project at Duke, 2014-2017
Member, Search Committee, open rank Seventeenth-Century British Literature
Member, Executive Council of the Graduate Faculty (2012-13)
Associate DGS of English (2012-15)
Named Chairs Committee (2010-13)
Graduate Committee (2010-15)
Graduate Admissions Committee (2010-15)
Job Placement Officer (2010, 2012)
Chair and member, numerous Contract Renewal and Promotion Committees (2012-2014)
Search Committee, assistant professor of contemporary literature (2010-11)
Brown University
University Tenure, Promotion, and Appointments Committee (2007-09)
Chair, Search Committee, Director of Pembroke Center, 2007.
Director of Graduate Studies, Modern Culture and Media, 2007Chair, Department of English, 2000-2006.
Acting Chair of Modern Culture and Media (1996)
John Carter Brown Library, Faculty Liaison Committee (1994- 2008)
Pembroke Center Board (1992-2008)
Vice-Chair: University Task Force on Faculty Governance (2003-2004)
Co-author, proposed Humanities Research Center (2003-2004)
University Academic Priorities Committee (1999)
University Tenure, Promotion, and Appointments Committee (1997-98)
Dean’s Policy Committee on Sexual Harassment and Discrimination in the workplace
(1998)
Chair, Provost Search Committee (1997)
Chair, Provost's Task force on Reorganization and Resources (1996)
Faculty Executive Committee (1994-96)
NEASC Steering Committee to reaccredit Brown University (1995)
Executive Committee, Women Writers Project (1993-95)
Member, Dean of Faculty Search Committee (1994)
Chair, Grievance-Mediation Subcommittee (1993-94)
National and International Service:
External Examiner, Dissertation Defense, University of Toronto, (June 2014)
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External Examiner, Dissertation Defense, University of Melbourne (January 2014)
Member, External Review Committee, University of Delaware, English Department
(2013)
Organizer/sponsor, “Novel Worlds,” inaugural conference of the Society for Novel
Studies (2012)
Founder, Society for Novel Studies, an international learned society (2011)
Member, NEASC team to accredit Harvard University (2009)
Chair, External Review Committee, English Department, Dartmouth University, 2007.
External Examiner, M.A. in English Studies, University of Hong Kong (2004-2006)
External Examiner, President’s tenure committee, Harvard (2006)
Member, NEASC team to accredit Brandeis University (2006)
External Examiner, English Department, Michigan State University (2004)
Editorial Board, Publication of the Modern Language Association (2001-2003)
External Examiner, tenure review committee, Brandeis University (2003)
NEASC Team to accredit Tufts University (2003)
External Examiner, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia to review government
funded Humanities Departments and Centers in Portugal (1999, 2003)
External Examiner, Provost’s tenure Committee, Columbia University (2003)
Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship Selection Committee (2000-2015)
President, Society for Critical Exchange (2000)
Member, external review team, Department of English, University of Oklahoma (2000)
Member, NEASC team to accredit Dartmouth (1999)
Chair, James Russell Lowell Prize Committee, Modern Language Association (19971999)
Chair, Modern Language Association: Executive Board Member, Comparative Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Literature (1975-1977)
Dissertations Directed:
Jacqueline Kellish, in process
Ben Richardson, in process
Davide Carozza, in process
Philip Stillman, in process
Stefan Waldscmidt, in process
Anna Gibson 5/14 (tenure track assistant professor, Dusquene University)
Khristina Gonzalez 8/11 (Director of Writing Program, Princeton University)
Emily Steinlight 7/09 (tenure track assistant professor, U Penn)
Rebecca Summerhays 3/11 (Expository Writing Program, Harvard University)
Sian Silyn Roberts/5/08 (associate professor, Queens/CUNY).
Avak Hasratian 5/08 (lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Shelley Rosenblum 12/05 (Curator of Academic Programs, University of Toronto)
Eugenia Zuroski 8/05 (associate professor, McMaster University)
Jonathan Goldman 5/05 (associate professor, Florida International University)
Amanda Emerson 5/04 (tenure track assistant professor, University of South Dakota)
Jason Solinger 8/04 (associate professor, University of Mississippi)
Frank Christianson 8/04 (associate professor, Brigham Young University)
Jonah Willihnganz 12/04 (lecturer, Stanford)
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Cole Heinowitz 5/03 (associate professor, Bard College)
Annette Van 9/02 (associate professor, Midwestern Methodist University)
Jennifer Fleissner 6/01 (associate professor, University of Indiana)
Caroline Reitz 5/99: (associate professor, John Jay College, CUNY)
Jared Green 4/01 (associate professor, Stone Hill College)
Cynthia Tolentino 8/01 (associate professor, University of Oregon)
Ezra Tawil 8/00 (associate professor, Rochester University)
Mark Cooper 8/00 (associate professor, University of South Carolina)
Lisa O’Connell 8/00 (professor, University of Queensland)
Ivan Kreilkamp 3/99 (associate professor, Indiana University)
Jennifer Ruth 8/99 (associate professor, Portland State University)
Carolyn Vallenga Berman 6/99 (professor, The New School)
Lois Cucullu 8/98 (associate professor, University of Minnesota)
Claudia Moscovici 6/97 (lecturer, University of Michigan)
Nicholas Daly 6/96 (chaired professor, University College, Dublin)
Judith Halberstam 6/90 (chaired professor, University of Southern California)
Ebtisam Sadique 6/81 (professor and Head, King Saud University Women’s College)
Updated 9/15