Kathy A. Psomiades | Scholars@Duke

Kathy A. Psomiades
Associate Professor of English

Kathy Psomiades works on Victorian literature and culture. She is author of Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism (Stanford, 1997), and co-editor, with Talia Schaffer of Women and British Aestheticism (Virginia, 1999). She has been the recipient of an NEH fellowship, and a Kaneb award for undergraduate teaching at the University of Notre Dame. Her current book project, Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel, examines the intersections between the novel and anthropology in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Office Hours

Fall 2022 Semester:

Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:30 pm (308 Allen)

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003
Director of Graduate Studies in English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021

Contact Information

308 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
kathy.psomiades@duke.edu (919) 684-5444
Curriculum Vitae

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1990
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
Awards & Honors
- Fellowships for University Teachers. National Endowment for the Humanities. 2002
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - United Kingdom (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2003
Publications & Artistic Works
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
Recent Courses
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

Awards & Honors

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Recent Courses

Presentations & Appearances