Rachel Gevlin

Rachel Gevlin, PhD

Pronouns: She/Her

Teaching Assistant Professor

Affiliate Faculty in Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies

Hibbs Hall, 900 Park Ave., Room 324A

Curriculum vitae

Eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism

Writing Pedagogies

Education

  • PhD in English, Duke University
  • MA in English, Duke University
  • BA in Literature and Mathematics, Bennington College

Research Interests

  • Eighteenth-Century Literature and Romanticism
  • The history of the novel and novel theory
  • Feminist theory
  • Legal histories of marriage and divorce

Courses

  • ENGL606: Literary Criticism
  • ENGL480: Jane Austen
  • ENGL412: 18th-Century Studies: Bad Romances
  • ENGL335: British Literature of the Romantic Era
  • ENGL332: Eighteenth-Century Novels and Narratives
  • ENGL331: Restoration and 18th-century British Literature
  • ENGL311: Introduction to Literary Theory
  • ENGL236/WSGS236: Women in Literature
  • ENGL 215: Reading Literature (The Literature of Memory)
  • ENGL204: British Literature II

Select Publications

  • “Jane Austen: Protofeminist, Postfeminist, Bad Feminist,” Persuasions, 2024
  • “Eighteenth-Century Proud Boys, or, Why Sir Charles Grandison is (a) No Wanker,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Special issue on “Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions,” April 2024.
  • “Adulterous Austen: Educating the Rake in Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park,” ELH 87 (4), 2020, 1055-1078.

Affiliations

  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC/ASECS)
  • Jane Austen Society of North America

Awards

  • Lift Award, VCU, 2024-2025.
  • Huntington Library Travel Grant, 2023-24, in support of research at the Parliamentary Archives in London
  • Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence, Goucher College, Summer 2023
  • Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2020-21 (Short-term fellowship)

Links 

“What Novels Can Tell Us About Gendered Responses to Adultery,” The Academic Minute, August 2022