English Department Faculty

Adrienne Munich

Courses:

• On Leave (Students May Use email for questions or requests.)

Selected Publications:

• Editor (with John Maynard), Victorian Literature and Culture, a journal published semi-annually by Cambridge University Press.

• Selected Poems of Amy Lowell. Edited with Melissa Bradshaw. Rutgers University Press, 2002.
• Queen Victoria's Secrets. New York: Columbia UP, 1996 (paperback, 1998).
• Editor. Remaking Queen Victoria. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997 (with Margaret Homans).
• Editor. Arms and the Woman: War, Gender and Literary Representation. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press, 1989 (with Helen Cooper and Susan Squier).
• Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art. New York: Columbia UP, 1989.

• "Jews and Jewels on the South African Diamond Fields."  In The Jew in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa. Edited by Eitan Bar-Joseph and Nadia Valman.  Palgrave Press, forthcoming 2008.
• "Family Matters: Genealogies and Mythopoesis in Amy Lowell's 'The Sisters'" In Amy Lowell, American Modern: Critical Essays.  Edited with Melissa Bradshaw.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004, pp. 9-26.
• "In the Radio Way:  Elizabeth II, the Maternal Voice-over, and Radio's Imperial Effects." In Communities of the Air.  Edited by Susan Squier.   Durham: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 217-236.
• "Good and Plenty: Victorian Appetites, Womanly Figures, and Queen Victoria,"  Victorians Institute Journal 28(2000): 5-24. Reprint as: "Good and Plenty: Queen Victoria Figures the Imperial Body." In Scenes of the Apple: Women, Food, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Writing.  Edited by Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003, pp. 45-64.
• "Heart of the Ocean: the Diamond and Democratic Desire in Titanic." (With Maura Spiegel) In Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster. Edited by Gaylyn Studlar and Kevin Sandler. Rutgers University Press, 1999, pp. 155-68.
• "What Lily Knew: Virginity in the 1890s." In Virginal Sexuality and Textuality. Ed. Lloyd Davis. Albany: SUNY Press, 1991.

After working on Queen Victoria, particularly in the archives at Windsor Castle, I became interested in the focus on the royal family’s absorption in material culture, to the point that Prince Albert had photographed and catalogued every object in their possession.  That—and the fuss over the Koh-i-nor diamond—led me to my current projects in teaching and scholarship—interests in fashion theory, in material culture, and in the rise of consumer culture—all topics of great interest to the Victorians.  I am teaching courses in these subjects on both undergraduate and graduate levels.  In addition, I’m giving talks on the shopgirl as a literary type, and I’m writing a book on changing meanings of diamonds, beginning with the discovery of diamonds in South Africa.       On February 23, 2008, I have organized a one-day symposium on Fashion and Film, to be held at Stony Brook Manhattan to celebrate E. Ann Kaplan’s twenty years as Director of the Humanities Institute.