Jill Rappoport
Research Interests:
- Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
- Women's Literature and Gender Studies
- Literary Theory
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia; B.A. Wesleyan University
Research
Areas of Specialty:
- nineteenth-century British literature and culture
- gift theory; literature and economics
- gender and sexuality
- Victorian poetry, science fiction, literary annuals
Recent Honors:
- College of A&S Certificate for Outstanding Graduate Mentoring, 2018-19
- EGSO Outstanding Facultuy Award, 2019
- William S. Ward Award for Distinguished Achievement, 2019
- Faculty Mentor, Inclusive Pedagogies Graduate Student Learning Community, 2018-19
- College of A&S Inclusion Fellow, 2018-19
Selected Publications:
- Giving Women: Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture (Oxford U. P., 2012; in paperback January 2014) http://www.amazon.com/Giving-Women-Alliance-Exchange-Victorian/dp/019936494X/ref=sr_1_1_title_2_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1382973897&sr=8-1&keywords=giving+women+alliance+and+exchange
- Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture, co-edited with Dr. Lana Dalley (The Ohio State U.P., 2013) http://www.amazon.com/Economic-Women-Dispossession-Nineteenth-Century-British/dp/0814212360/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1382973985
- "Greed, Generosity, and Other Problems with Unmarried Women's Property." Victorian Studies 58:4 (Summer 2016): 636-660. Trollope_VS2016.pdf
- "Friendship and Intimacy: Competition, Common Interest, and the 'Aspect of Relationship' in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters." Palgrave History of British Women's Writing: Volume 6, 1830-1880. Ed. Lucy Hartley. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018): 303-19.
- "Economics, the Market, and Victorian Culture." Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates. Ed. Lee Behlman and Anne Longmuir. London: Routledge, 2016: 393-401. Economics_RoutledgeVolume_Rappoport.pdf
- "Wives and Sons: Coverture, Primogeniture, and Married Women's Property." BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web. http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=jill-rappoport-wives-and-so...“
- Jane’s Inheritance.” Victorians Institute Journal Digital Annex 38 (2010).
- “The Price of Redemption in ‘Goblin Market.’” Studies in English Literature. 50.4 (Autumn 2010): 853-75. SELGoblinMarketarticle.pdf
- “Conservation of Sympathy in Cranford.” Victorian Literature and Culture. 36.1 (March 2008): 95-110. CranfordRappoportVLC2008.pdf
- “Buyer Beware: The Gift Poetics of Letitia Elizabeth Landon.” Nineteenth-Century Literature. 58: 4 (March 2004): 441-73. LEL Article.pdf
