Victoria Olwell
Associate Professor
414 Bryan Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00 – 3:00, and at other times by appointment.
Class Schedule: TR 09:30-10:45, 12:30-1:45
Specialties:
American, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Modernism
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
