Vassar College Department of English

Faculty

A.B. Bryn Mawr, Ph.D. Princeton, 18^th-century literature and culture. Other areas of research and teaching interests include history of the novel, material culture, history of science and technology, history of sexuality and gender, libertinism, history of the book, visual culture, aesthetics, space and architecture, critical theory.  Julie Park has published articles in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation and Studies in the Novel.  She was associate and co-editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction from 2003-2008 and has organized, co-edited and wrote the introduction for War, which won runner-up prize in 2007 for best special issue from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and edited Interiors.  Her book The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England appeared in 2010 from Stanford University Press.  She is working on a new book project on interiority and domestic space, Interiors Designs: Representing Self-Consciousness, 1689-1814, as well as editing a special issue called "The Rise of the Novel: Redux" for Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.   Her major research awards include a Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for studies in ethical and religious values from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, an Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCLA’s Center for 17^th- and 18^th-Century Studies and Clark Library, and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant.  Courses she has taught include “ Machine Life in 18^th-Century England,” “Fantasies of the Orient in 18^th-Century England,” “The Eighteenth-Century Novel,” “The Rise of the Novel” and “Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture.”  At Vassar she is teaching “Pride and Prejudice,” “Sense and Sensibility,” “Dreamwork,” and “Interior Life in 18th-Century England.”