Talia Schaffer

Professor of English, specializing in Victorian literature.

I teach Victorian literature and culture, disability studies, ethics, and feminist theory. I recently published Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian fiction (2021). Earlier books include Romance’s Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction (2016), Novel Craft (2011) and The Forgotten Female Aesthetes (2001).

Academic Interests

19th c. British material culture, popular fiction, narrative, the marriage plot.