Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Yale University 1990
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 - 2019
  • Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2012
  • Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2009
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • Fellowships for University Teachers. National Endowment for the Humanities. 2002
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • United Kingdom (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2003
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Psomiades, K. A., and T. Schaffer, editors. Women and British Aestheticism. University Press of Virginia, 1999.
    • Psomiades, Kathy Alexis. Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism. Stanford University Press, 1997.
    • Psomiades, K. A. Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel.

  • Academic Articles

    • Psomiades, K. A. “What does it mean to periodize a theory? three feminist encounters with theories of the nineteenth century.” Criticism, vol. 61, no. 4, Sept. 2019, pp. 443–59. Scopus, doi:10.13110/criticism.61.4.0443.
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    • Psomiades, Kathy Alexis. “Real Domesticity.” Novel, vol. 51, no. 3, Duke University Press, Nov. 2018, pp. 533–37. Crossref, doi:10.1215/00295132-7086754.
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    • Psomiades, K. A. “Hidden Meaning: Andrew Lang, H. Rider Haggard, Sigmund Freud, and Interpretation.” Romanticism on the Net, no. 64, Jan. 2014. Scopus, doi:10.7202/1025669ar.
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    • PSOMIADES, KATHY A. L. E. X. I. S. “Polygenist Ecosystems: Robert Knox’s The Races of Man (1850).” Victorian Review, vol. 36, Oct. 2010, pp. 32–36.
    • PSOMIADES, KATHY A. L. E. X. I. S. “The Marriage Plot in Theory.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 43, Apr. 2010, pp. 53–59.
    • Psomiades, Kathy Alexis. “Heterosexual Exchange and Other Victorian Fictions: "The Eustace Diamonds" and Victorian Anthropology.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 33, Oct. 1999, pp. 93–118. Manual, doi:10.2307/1346029.
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    • Psomiades, K. A. “Feminine and Poetic Privacy in Christina Rossetti’s "Autumn" and "A Royal Princess".” Victorian Poetry, vol. 31, July 1993, pp. 187–202.
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    • Psomiades, K. A. “Beauty’s Body: Gender Ideology and British Aestheticism.” Victorian Studies, vol. 36, Oct. 1992, pp. 31–52.
    • Psomiades, K. A. “Poetry by Women.” Nineteenth Century Contexts, vol. 16, no. 2, Jan. 1992, pp. 193–99. Scopus, doi:10.1080/08905499208583352.
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    • Psomiades, K. ““Material Witness:”Feminism and Nineteenth-Century Studies.” Nineteenth Century Contexts, vol. 13, no. 1, Mar. 1989, pp. 13–18. Scopus, doi:10.1080/08905498908583293.
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  • Book Sections

    • Psomiades, K. A. “Anthropology and classical evolutionism.” The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature, 2019, pp. 389–400. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9780429507724-35.
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    • Psomiades, K. A. “He Knew He Was Right: the Sensational Tyranny of the Sexual Contract and the Problem of Liberal Politics.” The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope’s Novels, edited by M. Markwick et al., Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2009, pp. 31–44.
    • Psomiades, K. A. “'Dante Gabriel Rossetti' and 'Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant'.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, edited by D. S. Kastan, Oxford University Press, 2006.
    • Psomiades, Kathy Alexis. The Novel and the Culture Concept. Vol. 39, 2005, pp. 119–22.
    • Psomiades, K. A. “’The Lady of Shalott’ and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry.” The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, edited by J. Bristow, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 25–45.
    • Psomiades, K. A. “Still Burning from this Strangling Embrace: Vernon Lee on Desire and Aesthetics.” Victorian Sexual Dissidence, edited by R. Dellamora, University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 21–41.
    • Psomiades, K. A. “Whose Body? Christina Rossetti and the Embodiment of Aestheticism.” Women and British Aestheticism, University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 101–18.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • ENGLISH 247: Victorian Literature 2022
  • ENGLISH 497: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2022
  • ENGLISH 498: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2022
  • ENGLISH 891: Special Readings 2022
  • ENGLISH 996: Practicum in Teaching College English 2022
  • ENGLISH 490S-10: Special Topics in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology 2021
  • ENGLISH 497: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2021
  • ENGLISH 498: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2021
  • ENGLISH 546S: Special Topics in Victorian Literature 2021
  • ENGLISH 890T: Tutorial in Special Topics 2021
  • ENGLISH 247: Victorian Literature 2020
  • ENGLISH 890T: Tutorial in Special Topics 2020
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • “The Despotism of Custom: late-Victorian feminism and the Victorian anthropology of marriage,”. April 5, 2013  2013
  • Savage Survivals: Anthropology and Intrepretation in Lang, Haggard and Freud. September 1, 2012  2012
  • Darwin and the Anthropologists Revisited. April 1, 2012  2012
  • Elizabeth Grosz's Feminist Darwin. April 1, 2012  2012
  • The way we read then. January 4, 2010  2010
  • “Sexual Selection as Aesthetic Theory,”. January 12, 2008  2008
  • “Who put the Sex in the Sexual Contract?". January 12, 2008  2008

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