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Vanessa Ryan has research interests in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, history of the novel, non-fiction prose, cognitive science and the arts, and theories of knowledge in and outside of the humanities. She is the author of "Thinking without Thinking in the Victorian Novel" (Johns Hopkins, 2012).
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Vanessa Ryan is Assistant Professor of English, specializing in 19th-century British literature and culture. Her work centers on debates over the status of literature and humanistic inquiry in relation to other forms of knowledge. Ryan's recent book Thinking without Thinking in the Victorian Novel (Johns Hopkins, 2012) examines the pivotal role played by fiction in mid-nineteenth-century debates about the new sciences of the mind. She has published articles on George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Hugh Clough, G. Bernard Shaw, and Edmund Burke in RES: Review of English Studies, Victorian Poetry, SHAW, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Literature and Medicine, and Critical Inquiry. Before coming to Brown in 2007, Ryan was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. For Spring 2009, she was Research Forum Mellon Foundation Visiting Professor at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. For the last three years, she has been a Fellow at the National Forum for the Future of Liberal Education, an initiative sponsored by the Teagle Foundation, where she was engaged in considering the significance and future of the liberal arts in higher education today. Most recently, she has been awarded a Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship for 2013-2014. She also coordinated TEDxBrownUniversity: Life, Learning, and Liberal Education in October 2012.
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 VANESSA RYAN, Ph.D. Yale University, 2004; A.B. Harvard College, 1997 http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Vanessa_Ryan On The Web: Brown English Department Brown Science and Technology Studies Alumna Profile, St. Mark's Magazine TEDxBrownU 2012 Collaborators at other institutions: Are you Vanessa Ryan? Click here to edit your research profile. |
