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Diana E. Bellonby

Lecturer

Research Area

  • Victorian and modernist literatures
  • Visual culture and the novel
  • The intellectual history of aesthetics
  • Feminism, gender, and sexuality

Current Research

  • A Secret History of Aestheticism: Magic-Portrait Fiction, 1829-1929

Professional Societies

  • North American Victorian Studies Association
  • British Women Writers Association
  • Modernist Studies Association
  • Modern Language Association

Professional Honors

  • Edgar Hill Duncan Award for Distinguished Overall Graduate Career, Vanderbilt English Department (2012)
  • Elizabeth E. Fleming Dissertation Fellowship, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (2011-2012)
  • Dissertation Enhancement Grant, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University (2011)
  • Summer Research Award, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University (2009)
  • Susan F. Wiltshire Award for Best Graduate Essay on Women's and Gender Studies, Vanderbilt University (2009)
  • John M. Aden Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Writing, Vanderbilt English Department (2008)
  • Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Graduate Scholarship, Vanderbilt University (2007-2012)
  • B. William Hochman '55 Memorial Prize in American Literature, Dartmouth College (2004)

 

Representative publications

  • "The Surrogate-Author Function in *The Portrait of a Lady*: A Theory of Influence." Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts (Spring 2013).
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