Lillian R. Nayder
Charles A. Dana Professor of English
About
Lillian Nayder is Professor of English at 乐播传媒.聽 She teaches courses on nineteenth-century British fiction, including 鈥淛ane Austen: Then and Now,鈥 鈥淭he Bront毛s,鈥 and 鈥淒ickens Revised.鈥澛 Her seminar topics include 鈥淭he Arctic Sublime鈥 and 鈥淰ictorian Crime Fiction.鈥澛 Her research interests center on Charles and Catherine Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and sensation fiction.聽 Her most recent book, The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth, was published in聽2011.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Virginia, May 1988
- MA, University of Virginia, May 1982
- BA, Johns Hopkins University, May 1978
Courses Include:
- Fictions of Affliction
- The Arctic Sublime
- Frankenstein鈥檚 Creatures
- Dickens Revised
- The Bront毛s
- Victorian Crime Fiction
- Jane Austen: Then and Now
- The English Novel
- The Gothic Tradition
- Introduction to Fiction Writing
Exhibitions, Displays, and Interviews
Exhibitions and Displays
- Guest Curator, (Exhibit), The Charles Dickens Museum, London, England, 3 May 鈥 20 November 2016.
- Review (Four Stars) in Time Out London, 17-23 May 2016, p. 57.
- Contributing Scholar, 鈥.鈥 Boott Cotton Mills Museum Gallery, Lowell National Historic Park, March 鈥 October 2012.
- 鈥淐onstructing Catherine Dickens.鈥 Locating the Victorians Conference, Science Museum, London, England, 12-15 July 2001
Interviews
- Interview by Robert Elms, 鈥,鈥 BBC Radio London, 4 May 2016.
- 聽Interview by Nick Higham, 鈥溾 BBC Radio 4, Six O鈥機lock News, 3 May 2016.
- Interview by Eleanor Cunningham, 鈥,鈥 London Live, BBC 4, 3 May 2016.
- Interview by Maev Kennedy, 鈥淟ife of Catherine Dickens to be celebrated in new exhibition,鈥 The Guardian, 3 April 2016.
- Interview by Sue Perkins, 鈥淢rs. Dickens鈥檚 Family Christmas,鈥 BBC2 television, broadcast December 29, 2011.
- Interview, “Does Charles Dickens Matter?” Speakeasy, Wall Street Journal, 12 December 2010 (with Michael Slater).
- Interview by Madeline Lewis, 鈥淲ilkie Collins,鈥 Composed on the Tongue, WKCR, New York, broadcast 2 October 2005.




