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Julia Prewitt Brown

jpbrown@bu.edu

Professor. B.A., Barnard; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia

Teaching and Research Interests: 19th-century British literature and culture, especially the novel and prose; fiction from the 18th century to the present; film.
Book Publications: The Bourgeois Interior (2008); Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Art (1997); A Reader’s Guide to the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (1985; Japanese translation, 1987); Jane Austen’s Novels: Social Change and Literary Form (1979).
Work in Progress: A book on the bildungsroman and film.
Awards and Grants: North American Scholar Award , Jane Austen Society, 2000.
Student Legacy Gift Honoree, Boston University, 2003 and 2006.  Senior Fellow, Humanities Foundation, Boston University, 1992-93.  Mellon Foundation Grant, Harvard University, 1979-80.