Member Profile
Name:
Nadine Kolz
Institution:
Curtin University
Academic status:
Student
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
Cultural Studies
Other societies:
Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA)
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)
Research interests:
I am a PhD student researching class-based barriers to education and upward social mobility in the Victorian Bildungsroman, focusing on Jude the Obscure, Great Expectations, and The Mill on the Floss. I hold a Master’s degree in Victorian Literature from Durham University, where my dissertation interrogated the conservative sexual ideologies underpinning the Victorian medieval revival through Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles and The Return of the Native. My research interests include nineteenth-century literature, particularly the works of Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, as well as medievalism, gender, class, and social mobility in the Victorian novel. I previously worked as a Project Editor at Oxford University Press, managing academic and trade titles across History, Philosophy, Literature, Classics, Religion, Politics, and the Oxford World’s Classics series.