Rachel Gevlin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Hibbs Hall, 900 Park Ave., Room 324A
Education
- PhD in English, Duke University
- MA in English, Duke University
- BA in Literature and Mathematics, Bennington College
Research Interests
- Eighteenth-century literature
- The history of the novel and novel theory
- Feminist theory
- Legal histories of marriage and divorce
Courses
- ENGL606: Literary Criticism
- ENGL480: Jane Austen
- ENGL332: Eighteenth-Century Novels and Narratives
- ENGL331: Restoration and 18th-century British Literature
- ENGL311: Introduction to Literary Theory
- ENGL236/WSGS236: Women in Literature
- ENGL 215: Reading Literature (The Literature of Memory)
Select Publications
- (Forthcoming) “Eighteenth-Century Proud Boys, or, Why Sir Charles Grandison is (a) No Wanker,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Special issue on “Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions,” Winter 2024.
- “Adulterous Austen: Educating the Rake in Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park,” ELH 87 (4), 2020, 1055-1078.
Affiliations
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Jane Austen Society of North America
Awards
- Huntington Library Travel Grant, 2023-24, in support of research at the Parliamentary Archives in London
- Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence, Goucher College, Summer 2023
- Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2020-21 (Short-term fellowship)