EDUCATION:
M.A. and Ph.D., Cornell University
A.B., Mount Holyoke College
INTERESTS: Victorian
literature and culture, narrative, autobiography;
Victorian fiction and non-fiction
prose, especially working-class autobiographies; literature
and politics; fiction and sensory experience; Dickens
Janice Carlisle has published books on mid-century Victorian
fiction and John Stuart Mill and, most recently, Common
Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction,
as well as editions of Dickens's Great Expectations
and a collection of essays on narrative. She has also completed
a study of the visual practices of illustrated journalism
as they represented British electoral reform during the 1860s.
She serves as an associate director of the Dickens Project
and a trustee of the Dickens Society. She particularly enjoys
teaching interdisciplinary approaches to Victorian novels,
including such topics as their relation to British art from
Hogarth to the Pre-Raphaelites, and writing.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Reading and Writing Argument
GRADUATE COURSES: Victorian Prose: The Conditions of England.
