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Name: Joseph Litvak
Title: Professor oF English
Departmental Affiliation: English Department
Degrees: Ph.D., Yale University; M. Phil., Yale University; B.A., Wesleyan University
E-mail: joseph.litvak@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Interests: Victorian Literature, Especially the Novel; Literary Criticism and Theory; Mass Culture of the Cold War; Jewish Cultural Studies

Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (University of California Press, 1992)

Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel (Duke University Press, 1997); winner of Perkins Prize for year’s best book on narrative, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature (1999)

“Bad Scene: Oliver Twist and the Pathology of Entertainment,” Dickens Studies Annual 26 (1998)

“Adorno Now,” Victorian Studies 44 (Autumn 2001) “Adorno Now,” Victorian Studies 44 (Autumn 2001)

“Jewish Geography: Trollope and the Question of Style,” Nineteenth-Century Geographies, ed. Helena Michie and Ronald R. Thomas (Rutgers University Press, 2003)

“The Aesthetics of Jewishness: Shelley Winters,” Aesthetic Subjects, ed. Pamela Matthews and David McWhirter (University of Minnesota Press, 2003)

“Unctuous: Resentment in David Copperfield,” Repetition, ed. Michael Moon (forthcoming)

Review of D.A. Miller, Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style, Novel (forthcoming)

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