Grace Vasington
Assistant Professor, General Faculty
Office Hours: R 2:30-4:30 in Nau Hall Atrium, by appointment.
Class Schedule: MW 2-3:15, MWF 11-11:50 and 12-12:50.
Specialties:
19th century British literature, technology and popular culture, women’s literature, children’s literature, Victorian
Education:
Honors B.A., University of Connecticut, 2013
PhD University of Virginia, 2019
Recent Publications
- “John Henry Newman, Christina Rossetti, and the Formation of Victorian Reading Practices” (forthcoming in Victorian Studies)
- “Dunsany. An Irish Story,” in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, ed. April London (Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming)
Select Conference Papers
- “Ekphrastic Evolution: Architectural Surfaces in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King,” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Columbus, OH, October 2019
- “Queer Clocks: Master Humphrey, Serial Publication, and the Irregular Reader,” Interdisciplinary 19th-Century Studies (INCS), San Francisco, March 2018
- “Christina Rossetti and the Process of Poetic Vigilance,” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Banff, November 2017
- “‘The Lenient Hand of Time’: Sensibility and Horology in Northanger Abbey,” Interdisciplinary 19th-Century Studies (INCS), Asheville, March 2016
- “Alfred Tennyson’s Evolutionary Epic: The Idylls of the King and Victorian Scientific Thought,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA), Orlando, March 2015
Select Awards and Fellowships
- Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2018-19
- Bradley Fellow, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, 2018-19
- Honorable Mention: Best Graduate Student Paper, North American Victorian Studies Association, 2017
- Thomas J. Griffis Prize, University of Virginia, 2015
- Jonathan Hufstader Award, University of Connecticut, 2013