LUC’s Department of English is delighted to welcome a new professor to the faculty this fall
Dr. Jacob
LUC鈥檚 Department of English is delighted to welcome a new professor to the faculty this fall.
Dr. Priyanka Jacob will be joining the Department of English faculty as an Associate Professor specializing in Nineteenth Century Studies. In previous courses at Princeton University, she has taught courses on the novel and thing theory. This fall she will be teaching a course on 鈥淭he Paper Trails of 19th c. Literature,鈥� which 鈥渨ill examine the literary function of paper objects: the letters that ricochet through the long narrative poem; the crucial piece of paperwork that drives plots of blackmail, detection, and inheritance; and the multiplying documents of late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The paper object will provide us with an entry point into broader questions about social ties, authorship, law, the archive, and communication technology in the Victorian period.鈥� A recent publication 鈥淭he Relic and the Ruin: Equivocal Objects and the Presence of the Past in Daniel Deronda鈥� appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture. Currently, she is working on a monograph entitled Things That Linger: The Accidental Archives of the Victorian Novel. Further details of Dr. Jacob鈥檚 research, work with students, and various projects can be found here.
A warm welcome to 黑料门University Chicago!