Department faculty
Claudia Klaver
 
 

 
 

Claudia Klaver

Associate Professor

Ph.D. 1995, Johns Hopkins University

Office: 410 Hall of Languages, 315-443-2074
Email: ccklaver@syr.edu

Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, Victorian Studies (cross-disciplinary with literature, history, and gender studies), Women's Studies and Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Postcolonial criticism and theory, Queer Theory, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Poststructuralist Critical Theory

Book
Articles
Other Publications
Works in Progress
Academic Awards and Fellowships
Links to Course Syllabi

Book

A/Moral Economics: Classical Political Economy and Cultural Authority in Nineteenth-Century England, Ohio State University Press, December 2003 .

Articles

“Fallen Woman/Fallen Mother: Maternity, Sexuality, and the Body in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth,” accepted for inclusion in collection of essays on articles on Elizabeth Gaskell, eds. Deborah Morse and Deirdre D'Albertis, proposed for publication by Ashgate Press.

“Imperial Economics: Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy and the Narration of Empire,” forthcoming Victorian Literature and Culture.

"Domesticity Under Siege: English Women and Imperial Crisis, Lucknow, 1857," Women’s Writing 8 (2001).

"Natural Values and Unnatural Agencies: Little Dorrit and the Mid-Victorian Crisis in Agency," Dickens Studies Annual 28 (1999).

"Homely Aesthetics: Villette's Canny Narrator," Genre 23, Winter 1993 (published 1995).

"Revaluing Money: Dombey and Son's Moral Critique," in Literature and Money, ed. Anthony Purdy, Rudolpi Press, Amsterdam, 1993.

Other Publications

Electronic Coursepack, "Gender and Sexuality in Literature and Culture," XanEdu.com,
Bell and Howell Learning Company, 2001

Book Review, Jill Matus, Unstable Bodies: Victorian Representations of Sexuality and
Maternity
, Journal of the History of Sexuality 7, July 1996

Works in Progress

"Traumatic Displacements: Victorian Women, National Crisis, and the Deformation of Identity," book manuscript

“Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal,” edited collection with co-editor Ellen Rosenman, Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of English, University of Kentucky

Academic Awards and Fellowships

W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship for Young Scholars, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 2002

English Department Graduate Teaching Award, Syracuse University, 2001

William P. Tolley Curriculum Development Grant, Syracuse University, 1998

Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1993-1994

Dean's Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1992

Johns Hopkins Fellowships, 1988-1992

Curator, Tudor and Stuart Club, 1990-1992

Owen Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1988-1991

Marion Johnson Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1985-1988

Dean's Graduate Scholars Award, Rutgers University, 1985-1987

Links to Course Syllabi

ETS 192: Gender and Literary Texts:Contemporary Texts, Political Contexts

ETS 393: Introduction to Sexualities:Theories of Gender and Sexuality

ETS 491/WSP 491: Studies in Feminism:Third World and Transnational Feminist Theory

ETS 492: Studies in Gender:‘Other’ Women in Victorian Fiction

ENG 747: Nineteenth-Century Capitalism and the Victorian Novel

ENG 825: Advanced Seminar in Critical Theory: Gender and Sexuality
 
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