by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jul 15, 2017 | News
On July 1, I officially started my new position as Assistant Professor at Holy Cross College (Notre Dame, IN). Holy Cross is a small college and, like many similar colleges, has an English Department that is very small. In fact, I’m the only full-time professor,...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 15, 2016 | New Ideas and Research, News, Published Writing, Victorian Studies
The Victorians Institute Journal, Volume 43 has just been released, along with my article on George Eliot’s re-historicizing of Jesus in Adam Bede, titled: “Not an Average Man”: Jesus and the Commonplace Heroic of Adam Bede. I’m grateful for the assistance of the...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jul 8, 2016 | News
It is with great excitement that I will be taking a position at Wheaton College in the Fall as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English, where I’ll be teaching First Year Writing and a literature course entitled “The Art of Marriage, Madness, and...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | May 19, 2016 | News
On Saturday 14 May, some of my close friends and I chose to “walk” in recognition of our graduation from the University of Notre Dame. While the day was cold (all the better for wearing those academic robes), it was a lovely opportunity to celebrate each...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jan 26, 2016 | New Ideas and Research, News, Published Writing, Victorian Studies
VIJ (Victorians Institute Journal) will be publishing my article on Adam Bede in their forthcoming issue (#43)! This article grew out of a chapter in my dissertation, “The Quest for a Novelistic Jesus,” which looks at the changing characterization of Jesus in the...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Aug 31, 2015 | News
On August 25th I successfully defended my dissertation, “The Quest for a Novelistic Jesus: Literary Relationships with Jesus in Victorian Realism.” My defense, which was well attended by members of the department and university, fostered lively discussions...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | May 26, 2015 | News, Published Writing
It is an honor to be included in the fabulous collection of essays that Alisa Clapp-Itnyre and Julie Melnyk have put together in “Perplext in Faith”: Essays on Victorian Beliefs and Doubts. The book grew out of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association’s 2013...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Apr 21, 2015 | Academic Conferences, New Ideas and Research, News
At the end of March I co-chaired “The Bible, Narrative, and Modernity,” with Meagan Simpson. This Nanovic Institute-sponsored symposium brought scholars of the 18th- and 19th Britain century together to discuss the significance of religion to this period of...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jan 6, 2015 | News
Since winning a generous grant from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, fellow PhD Candidate Meagan Simpson and I have been working hard to organize the symposium “The Bible, Narrative, and Modernity,” scheduled for March 26-28, 2015 at the University of Notre...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 18, 2014 | Academic Conferences, New Ideas and Research, News, Victorian Studies
The North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)’s annual conference was held in London, Ontario over the weekend. The conference brought together scholars from around the world to consider the ideas of class and classification in the Victorian period,...
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