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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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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.
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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: English Department Page Are you Vanessa Ryan? Click here to edit your research profile. |