English Department Events
Dr. Nancy Henry Joins UT English Department
Nancy Henry, a new Full Professor in the English Department, has had a productive publishing schedule since she was hired to join the faculty this past spring. A specialist in British fiction during the Victorian period, Henry had edited and written introductions to several Victorian novels, including George Eliot’s The Mill and the Floss and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth, before coming to UT. She also was the author of George Eliot and the British Empire (Cambridge, 2002) and of a wide variety of articles, book chapters, and book reviews.
This spring her new book, The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot, appeared. It provides readers with the religious, political, scientific and cultural contexts they need to understand the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, as well as individual discussions of each Eliot novel. This summer Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture, was published by Indiana University Press. Nancy introduced and co-edited this volume of essays with Professor Cannon Schmidt of the University of Toronto. The book’s contributors demonstrate how phenomena such as the expansion of colonial and foreign markets, the broadening of the investor base through the advent of limited liability, and the rise of financial journalism gave rise to a "culture of investment" that affected Victorian Britons at every level of society and influenced every kind of cultural production.
Nancy Henry’s current research relates to a book on nineteenth-century women and the culture of investment and a critical biography of George Eliot, under contract with Blackwell.