VANESSA RYAN

Vanessa Ryan has research interests in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, history of the novel, non-fiction prose, and cognitive science and the arts.

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Biography

Vanessa Ryan is Assistant Professor of English, specializing in 19th-century British literature and culture. Ryan is working on a book entitled Thinking without Thinking in the Victorian Novel that 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, and Literature and Medicine. Ryan was most recently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

For Spring 2009, she was a Research Forum Mellon Foundation Visiting Professor at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

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VANESSA RYAN, Ph.D. Yale University, 2004; A.B. Harvard College, 1997
Assistant Professor of English
English
Phone: +1 401 863 3434
E-mail: Vanessa_Ryan@brown.edu

Vanessa Ryan's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Vanessa_Ryan

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