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Vanessa Ryan

Assistant Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 428
Phone: (401) 863-3434

Courses '08-'09
  Sem I:
 ENGL 0410A - S01: Literature and the Fantastic -- CRN 12223
 ENGL 0450F - S01: Man and Machine -- CRN 15471

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Degrees
Ph.D. Yale University, 2004
B.A. Harvard University, 1997

Research Interests
Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History of the Novel, Non-Fiction Prose, Cognitive Science and the Arts

Professional Accomplishments
Ryan is working on a book entitled Thinking without Thinking in the Victorian Novel that examines the influence of mid-nineteenth-century theories of mind on Victorian fiction. She has published articles on Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Hugh Clough, G. Bernard Shaw, and Edmund Burke in RES: Review of English Studies, Victorian Poetry, SHAW, The Journal of the History of Ideas, and Literature and Medicine. Ryan was most recently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.