College of Humanities People

Jill Galvan, Associate Professor

Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/

Office Information
553 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: galvan.8@osu.edu
Phone: 688-4194
Fax: 292-7816

Office Hours:
Autumn 2011: not teaching -- email for appointments

Education:
BA--University of Texas at Austin; MA & PhD--UCLA

General Background:
Jill Galvan (Ph.D., UCLA) specializes in Victorian and turn-of-the-century literature and culture. She is the author of The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, the Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859-1919. Her essay on ideas of the posthuman in the séance is forthcoming in the Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult (ed. Tatiana Kontou and Sarah Willburn). Current research projects address the turn-of-the-century psychical research case of the cross correspondences, genre and literary culture in the work of Marie Corelli, and changing forms of realism in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Her special-topics courses have included undergraduate classes on modern adaptations of Victorian texts and graduate classes on the Victorian occult, the fin de siècle, and Victorian realism.

Winter 2012 teaching:
English 202 (Selected Works in British Literature, 1800 - Present)
English 747 (Intro to Graduate Study in Victorian Literature)

Spring 2012 teaching:
English 541 (Victorian Poetry)
English 398H (Writing for English Majors - Honors)

19th-Century British Literature