Carolyn Dever

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Professor of English and Creative Writing

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Carolyn Dever is a scholar and teacher of British literature and culture of the nineteenth century. She is the author of Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field (Princeton University Press, 2022), and the editor of One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field (Princeton University Press, 2023). Her new book, Habits of Love: An Autobiography of My Mother, is underway. With Amy Kahrmann Huseby, Dever is co-editor of the Cambridge History of Victorian Women's Writing (forthcoming 2026).

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603 646 2497
Sanborn, Room 213
HB 6032

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University (1993).
  • MA, Harvard University (1989).
  • A.B., Boston College (1988), Summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.