Christie Harner

Senior Lecturer

Appointments

Thomas A. 1977 and Georgina T. Russo 1977 Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education for Fellowships and Scholars Programs

Director of Fellowships and Scholars Programs (SURFD)

Senior Lecturer in English

Area of Expertise

Victorian literature / Gothic and sensation fiction / Victorian visual culture / 19th century science / Post-colonialism / Narrative Theory / Australian literature

Biography

I teach and write about the intersection of narrative structure and Victorian scientific culture, including work in seriality, ecocriticism, animal studies, physics, and photographic technology. Recent and forthcoming publications include essays on Victorian women science writers, photography and species relations (from the nineteenth century to the present), temporalities in The Jungle Books, and ecologies in Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey.

As the Thomas A. 1977 and Georgina T. Russo 1977 Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education for Fellowships and Scholars Programs, I direct the College's Fellowships Office (which works with current students and alumni on national fellowships) and the Scholars Programs team (which shepherds the Coulter, Gerstner, Hanlon, and Stamps Scholars Programs at Dartmouth).

Education

B.A. University of Virginia

M.A. Northwestern University

PhD Northwestern University

Taught Courses

ENGL 72.13 The Brontes

ENGL 52.18 Netflix and the Victorian Serial Novel

ENGL 62.06 Dickens and Narrative Theory

ENGL 52.17 Victorian Children's Literature

ENGL 52.16 God, Darwin, and the Literary Imagination

ENGL 54.05 Animal Studies: Theory, Literature, Politics

ENGL 53.42 "Postmodern Britain": Fictions of Pluralism, Dystopia (and Brexit)

ENGL 62.16 Victorian Faces/Facial Politics

Publications

"Louisa Anne Meredith, Ethel Pedley, and Gendered Ecological Knowledge of the Australian Bush," in Longing to Know: Gender and the Production of Scientific Knowledge, special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, edited by Anna Henchman and Imogen Forbes-Macphail, vol. 22, no. 1, 2026.

"Can assessment-specific marking criteria and electronic comment libraries increase student engagement with assessment and feedback?" Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021. With Alison Graham and Sara Marsham.

"Transgressive Seriality: Netflix, the Victorian Novel, and Student Novellas in the 2020 Classroom." "Teaching to Transgress" in the Emergency Remote Classroom, special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, edited by Kimberly Cox, Shannon Draucker, and Doreen Thierauf, vol. 17, no. 1, 2021.

"Animal and Social Ecologies in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey," Victorian Literature and Culture 48.3 (2020): 577-99.

"Bush Animals, Developmental Time, and Colonial Identity in Victorian Australian Children's Fiction," in Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture, eds. Brenda Ayres and Sarah Elizabeth Maier. New York: Routledge, 2019.

"Geopolitical Temporalities and Animal Ecologies in The Jungle Books," Victorian Review 45 (2019): 135-52.

"The 'Animality' of Speech and Translation in The Jungle Books," in Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash, ed. Brenda Ayres. New York: Routledge, 2019.

"Professional Victorianisms: Immediacy, Urgency, and Interdisciplinarity in/at Work," Nineteenth-Century Contexts 39.4 (September 2017): 249-67. With Winter Werner, Paula Krebs, and Liz McCabe.

"Physiognomic Discourse and the Trials of Cross-Class Sympathy in Mary Barton," Victorian Literature and Culture 43.4 (2015): 705-724.

"Reading the 'Postal Effect' of John Caldigate as a Challenge to Victorian Post-Colonialism," Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (March 2015).

"'Loose from Wholesome Guidance:' Phrenology's and Physiognomy's Narrative of Anxiety," ELN 47.2 (Fall/Winter 2009): 61-73.

Works in Progress

Contact

Christie.L.Harner@dartmouth.edu

Parker House, Room 205

HB 6032