Curriculum Vitae
Academic Appointments
Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow in European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2021-August 2022.
Haarlow-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Lecturer in the Council of Humanities, English, and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University, July 2018-July 2021.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Bard College, 2016-2018.
Education
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, Yale University, May 2017
B.A., English; certificate in LGBT Studies, University of Maryland-College Park, 2008, summa cum laude
Book (Oxford University Press, 2024):
Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant Bodies
Peer-Reviewed Publications
”Oscar Wilde’s Flesh and Fashion’s Failures.” Fashion and Literature, ed. Elizabeth Sheehan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 225-241.
“Biography, Portraiture, and the Victorian Heroics of Blindness: The Case of Henry Fawcett, MP.” Word & Image, 40.4 (Winter 2024): 221-237.
“Finding The Irish Girl: Race, Displacement, and the Aesthetic Promise of Portraiture.” Literature Compass (August 2021): 1-26.
“Intersex Aestheticism and Transgenre Mediation: Swinburne’s Ekphrastic Androgynes.” Victorian Poetry 57.4 (Winter 2019): 489-509.
“Beside Women: Charles Dickens, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Reparative Lesbian Literary History.” GLQ: Queers Read This. 24.2-3 (Spring 2018): 267-289.
“‘The Dead Man Come to Life Again’: Edward Albert and the Strategies of Black Endurance.” Victorian Literature and Culture 45.2 (June 2017): 293-320.
“The Non-Taxonomical Mayhew.” Victorian Studies 57.3 (Spring 2015): 433-444.
Other Published Writing
Leon Kossoff at Luhring Augustine (June 2026)
https://brooklynrail.org/2026/06/artseen/leon-kossoff/
Richie Hofmann’s The Bronze Arms (March 2026)
https://brooklynrail.org/2026/03/books/richie-hofmann-the-bronze-arms/
David Wojnarowicz: Arthur Rimbaud in New York (December/January 2025-6)
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/12/artseen/david-wojnarowicz-arthur-rimbaud-in-new-york/
Spectrum of Desire (December/January 2025-6)
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/12/artseen/spectrum-of-desire/
Flora Yukhnovich: Four Seasons (October 2025)
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/10/artseen/flora-yukhnovich-four-seasons/
“Susan Weil: About Time (July/August 2025).
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/07/artseen/susan-weil/
“Kang Seung Lee: Body of Memory (May 2025).
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/artseen/kang-seung-lee-body-of-memory/
”J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality (May 2025).
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/artseen/jmw-turner-romance-and-reality/
“Joan Jonas: Empty Rooms.” (April 2025).
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/04/artseen/joan-jonas-empty-rooms/
“Edward E. Boccia: Postwar American Expressionist” (February 2025).
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/artseen/edward-e-boccia-postwar-american-expressionist-1/
“EARLY/MODERN/ITALY,” Critics Page, editor and contributor (November 2024).
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/11/criticspage/early-modern-italy/
“Love Trumps Paranoia or, Towards a Reparative Pedagogy.” V21 collective (June 2018).
http://v21collective.org/love-trumps-paranoia-towards-reparative-pedagogy/
“Disability, Queer Time, and ‘We Other Victorians.’” V21 collective (June 2015)
http://v21collective.org/natlie-prizel-disability-theory-queer-time-and-we-other-victorians/
Reviews
Review of Jonah Siegel, Overlooking Damage: Art, Display, and Loss in Times of Crisis in Victorian Studies (forthcoming)
Review of Kylee-Anne Hingston, Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction in Victorian Studies 63.2 (Winter 2021): 310-312.
Review of Clare Walker Gore, Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel for Nineteenth-Century Contexts 42.4 (2020): 476-478.
Review of Rethinking Modern Prosthesis in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820-1939, ed. Claire L. Jones (Manchester University Press 2017) for Victorian Studies 61.1 (Autumn 2018): 130-132.
Review of Stephen Cheeke, Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature Before Aestheticism (Oxford University Press, 2016) for Nineteenth-Century Contexts 40.4 (2018): 414-416.
