Jolene Zigarovich
Visiting Assistant Professor
- Degrees
- Claremont Graduate University
Ph.D. - Chapman University
M.A. - California State University, Long Beach
B.A.
Bio
Jolene Zigarovich comes to Cornell University from Scripps College where she was a visiting lecturer. She is author of Embodied Narratives: Suspended Deaths and Epitaphic Representations in the Victorian Novel (under consideration). She is also editor of the collection Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature, and has been published in Studies in the Novel, Dickens Studies Annual, and Eighteenth-Century Life. She is currently working on Victorian insolvency laws and the novel.
Research and Teaching Interests
- History of the Novel
- Death and Literature
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Women Novelists
- The Gothic
Current Projects
- Courting Death: Eros and Thanatos in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
- Victorian Insolvency