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, psychoanalysis.  Julie Park has published articles in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation and Studies in the Novel.  She was co-editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction and has edited two special issues, War, which won runner-up prize in 2007 for best special issue from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and Interiors.  Her book The Self and It: Novel Objects and Material Subjects in Eighteenth-Century England is appearing in 2009 from Stanford University Press.  She is working on a new book project, Interiors Designs: Representing Self-Consciousness, 1684-1814, as well as editing a collection of essays, Reconsidering the Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England.   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 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 “The Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England.”