Laura Green
Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
A scholar of Victorian literature and culture, Laura Green has published two books, Literary Identification: From Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature. She is co-editor of a special issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, on feminism, anti-feminism, and regret. In spring 2027, she will be the M. H. Abrams Visiting Professor of English at Cornell University.
*On Leave 2026-2027*
- Research Development Initiative Award, Northeastern University, 2015
- Research and Scholarship Development Fund Grant, Northeastern University, 2003-2004
- Griswold Faculty Research Grant, Yale University, Summer 1999
- “Rethinking ‘Inadequacy’: Constance Maynard, Feminist Criticism, and Victorian Autobiography.” Victorian Literature and Culture, 2019
- Special issue of Narrative on Dialogue in the Novel, Co-editor with William A. Cohen and co-author, “Introduction.” May 2019
- “George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality.” The Blackwell Companion to George Eliot. Eds. Amanda Anderson and Harry Shaw. New York: Wiley/Blackwell, 2013
- Literary Identification: From Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga. Ohio State University Press, 2012
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Education
PhD in English, 1994, University of California-Berkeley
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Contact
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Address
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Associations
Topics in Literary Study: Realism in Victorian Literature
ENGL 7351
English realist fiction rose to prominence in the Victorian period and has since become one of the most influential, and contested, types of fiction in English. In this class, we will read both canonical and lesser-known Victorian realist novels as well as twentieth and twenty-first century critical definitions and analyses of, and debates over, the term and its objects. Realism is both a genre (Middlemarch is a realist novel) and a mode or style (Great Expectations contains elements of both realism and romance). Students will have an opportunity, in a final research paper, to test their understandings of the term and its utility on one of the works that we read.
