NOVAK, DANIEL
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Education : B.A., UCLA; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton.
Research interests : British Romantic literature and culture, photography and literature, the body in theory and literature, Jewishness and race, economic theory.
Book: Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press, May 2008)
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Book Projects: Victoria's Accursed Race: The Cagots, The Body, and Race in Nineteenth-Century England
Essays : A Model Jew: Literary Photography and the Jewish body in Daniel Deronda, Representations (2004); "If Re-Collecting were Forgetting: Forged Bodies and Forgotten Labor in Little Dorrit," Novel: A Forum on Fiction (1997).
Awards and honors : Franklin P. Rolfe Phi Beta Kappa Award (1994); LSU Council on Research Summer Stipend (2005); Essay Prize, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Best Interdisciplinary Essay of 2004 (2005); William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Short Term Fellowship for Research (2005); LSU Manship Summer Research Fellowship (2006); LSU Council on Research Faculty Research Grant (2006-2007);
LSU Junior Faculty Nominee for NEH Summer Stipend (2006).