The Victorian Studies Program at Indiana University is the

intellectual home of a dynamic and innovative collection of

faculty and graduate students and graduate students working

on topics including Victorian mediacs including Victorian  culture,

animal studies, moral psychology, religion,  liberalism, psychology, 

narrative theory, and gender studies among many others. Founded

in the 1950s, the program was among the first interdisciplinary

programs in the humanities and remains among the world’s most

notable.  Faculty and graduate students at IU edit Victorian Studies, a leading interdisciplinary journal of the humanities, publishing essays,

forums, and reviews on literature, social and political history, philosophy, fine arts, science, economics, and law.  The IU Victorian Studies Program also is closely tied with the North American Victorian Studies Association, hosting its inaugural conference in 2003;  many IU faculty and graduate students participate each year in the Association’s conferences.

 

Scholars in t Scholars in the Program also benefit from the unparalleled collection of                      nineteenth-century manuscripts at the Lilly Library. Students work there            with a wide range of rare materials, including extensive collections of                  of ephemera, children’s books, sheet music, city guides, games, and first               first editions of many novels, as well as correspondence by Tennyson, Elizabeth      Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others.  Students also draw on the astonishing collection of  collection of periodicals available in the stacks of IU's Wells Library:                        Blackwood's, Household Words, the Illustrated London News, Fraser’s,                       Punch, Eliza Cook's Journal, and many others.

 

The Victorian Studies Program has many ties to other

groundbreaking programs in the humanities and sciences at

Indiana, working closely with the departments of English,

Comparative Literature, History, History and Philosophy of

Science, Art History, and Gender Studies. Our degree

requirements mandate interdisciplinary connections for

students.  Graduates of IU now hold tenure track positions

at Yale University, Duke University, the University

of Toronto, Vassar College,  New York University, the

University of Connecticut, Michigan State University, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Berea College, Guelph University, Western Michigan University,  Wright State University, Franklin and Marshall University, Webster University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Manitoba among many other schools.

This website contains information about our Victorianist offerings. It has links to faculty biographies and project descriptions, recent dissertation abstracts, and a list of courses at the graduate level. Contact us as Victorian Studies Program, Ballantine Hall 338, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 or by email at: victstu@indiana.edu  

 

 

Victorian Studies

at Indiana University