NOVAK, DANIEL
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
212-B Allen Hall
578-2877
dnovak@lsu.edu
Education : B.A., UCLA; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton.
Research interests: 19th Century British Literature and Culture, Photography and Literature, Jewishness in Literature and Culture, Representations of Race, Victorian Theatre, Economic Theory.
Publications: Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press, May 2008)
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521885256
Book Projects: Victoria's Accursed Race: The Cagots, The Body, and Race in Nineteenth-Century England ; and Specters of Wilde: Literary Afterlife, The Image, and the Archive.
Essays:“Picturing Wilde: Christopher Millard's ‘Iconography of Oscar Wilde,'” Nineteenth-Century Contexts (Forthcoming); “A Literature of its Own: Time, Space, and Narrative Meditations in Victorian Photography,” Image, Sound, and touch: Literature and Media in the Nineteenth-Century (Ashgate, Forthcoming); "Photographic Fictions: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Novel-Form," Novel: A Forum on Fiction (Forthcoming); “Sexuality in the Age of Technological Reproducibility: Oscar Wilde, Photography, and Identity,” Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend , Ed. Joseph Bristow (Ohio U Press, 2009); “Labors of Likeness: Photography and Labor in Capital ,” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts , 49: 2, Spring 2007 ; "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:
Board of Regents Enhancement Grant, Co-PI (2009-2011), LSU
Junior Faculty Nominee for NEH Summer Stipend (2006), LSU
Council on Research Faculty Research Grant (2006-2007), LSU
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Short Term Fellowship for Research (2005)
Essay Prize, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Best Interdisciplinary Essay of 2004
Specializations:
British Lit--18th and 19th century; Film and Media Studies; Women's and Gender Studies