Degrees
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2003
M.A. University of Chicago, 1990
B.A. University of Virginia, 1989
M.A. University of Chicago, 1990
B.A. University of Virginia, 1989
Books
Book in Progress: States of Mind: Consent and Literature in the United States.
The Genius of Democracy, Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
Articles
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"'I Never Heard Anything So Monstrous!': Developmental Psychology, Narrative Form, and the Age of Consent in What Maisie Knew," in Que(e)rying Consent, eds. Keja Valens and Jordana Greenblatt (Rutgers UP 2018).
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"The Uses of 'Culture,'" American Literary History (Spring 2016) 28 (1): 170-178
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'It Spoke Itself': Female Genius and Eccentric Politics," American Literature, March 2005.
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"The Body Types: Corporeal Documents and Body Politics Circa 1900," in Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture, ed. Leah Price and Pamela Thurschwell (Aldershot: Ashgate Press 2005).
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"Typewriters and the Vote," Signs 29 (Autumn 2003): 55-83.
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“Weeping Men” (book review), The Minnesota Review 52-4 (Fall 2001): 353-357.
Awards and Honors
- University Teaching Fellowship, 2007-2008
- University of Virginia Summer Research Grant, 2007
- University of Virginia Summer Research Grant, 2006
- Lantern Society’s Award for Women’s Education, Spring 2005
- Walter and Carol Blair Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 1999-2000
- Norman Maclean Instructorship, Winter 1996
- Marcia Tillotson Travel Grant, Fall 1995
- Honorable Mention, Best Graduate Student Paper Contest, American Women
- Writers of Color Conference, October 1995.
- Mellon Summer Dissertation Grant, 1993
- Award from Waller Scholarship Fund, University of Chicago, 1991
- Graduate Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1990-93
- Century Scholarship, University of Chicago, 1989
- Wagenheim Scholarship, University of Virginia, 1988
First Name:
Victoria
Position:
Associate Professor
Email:
vjo2f@virginia.edu
Computing ID:
vjo2f
Phone:
434-924-6803
Office Address:
414 Bryan Hall
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Specialties:
American, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Modernism
Classification:
Class Schedule:
TR 2-3:15, 3:30-4:45.
Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday, 5-6 p.m., and at other times by appointment.