{"id":6335,"date":"2018-08-28T14:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=6335"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:35:48","slug":"julia-prewitt-brown","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/profile\/julia-prewitt-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Prewitt Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For CV<a href=\"\/english\/files\/2018\/08\/BROWN-CV-5.12.25.pdf\">\u00a0click here<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Teaching and Research Interests<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"facultystripe\">\n<li>Nineteenth-century British literature and culture<\/li>\n<li>The history of the novel<\/li>\n<li>Film<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Selected Publications<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"facultystripe\">\n<li><i data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Reclamations: Essays on Neglected Novels and Endangered Ideas<\/i><span>. Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cPhilip Roth and the Eclipse of the Virtuous Heroine.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Philip Roth Studies.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(2023).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Taboo on D.H. Lawrence.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Salmagundi.<span> (<\/span><\/i>2021).<\/li>\n<li><i>The Films of John Schlesinger <\/i><span>(2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>The Bourgeois Interior: How the Middle Class Imagines Itself in Literature and Film<\/em> (2008)<\/li>\n<li><em>Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde\u2019s Philosophy of Art <\/em>(1997)<\/li>\n<li><em>A Reader\u2019s Guide to the Nineteenth Century English Novel <\/em>(1985)<em>; Japanese translation <\/em>(1987)<\/li>\n<li><em>Jane Austen\u2019s Novels: Social Change and Literary Form<\/em> (1979)<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Hospitality Divorced from Home: The Cosmopolitan Idea(l) from Oscar Wilde to\u00a0Satyajit Ray.&#8221; Wilde&#8217;s Other Worlds <\/em>(2018)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2019An Uncomfortable Truth\u2019: John Schlesinger\u2019s <em>The Day of the Locust<\/em> Reconsidered.\u201d <em>Literature\/Film Quarterly<\/em>. Fall 2017.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBox Office Failure: <em>Honky Tonk Freeway<\/em> and the Risks of Embarrassing the United States.\u201d <em>Jump Cut.\u00a0 <\/em>No. 57, fall 2016.<span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cAn Eye for an I: Identity and Nation in the Films of John Schlesinger.\u201d <em>Journal of Popular Film and Television<\/em> (2016)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<span>Sunday Bloody Sunday<\/span> Revisited.\u201d <em>CineAction<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span> (2015)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJohn Schlesinger\u2019s <em>Bildungsfilm<\/em>: <span>Midnight Cowboy<\/span> and the Problem of Youth.\u201d <em>Modern Fiction Studies <\/em>(2013)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Moral Scope of the English <em>Bildungsroman.<\/em>\u201d <em>The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel<\/em> (2013)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRobinson Crusoe\u2019s \u2018Tent Upon the Earth\u2019\u201d <em>Journal of Architecture <\/em>(2008)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Honors, Grants, Awards<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"facultystripe\">\n<li>North American Scholar Award, Jane Austen Society<\/li>\n<li>Senior Fellow, Humanities Foundation, Boston U.<\/li>\n<li>Mellon Foundation Grant, Harvard U.<\/li>\n<li>Henderson Senior Research Fellowship, Humanities Foundation, Boston U.<\/li>\n<li>Humanities Foundation Enhancement Grant<\/li>\n<li>Student Legacy Gift Honoree, Boston U.<\/li>\n<li><span>Jane Austen\u2019s Novels<\/span> nominated for James Russell Lowell Award.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Fellow, Columbia U.<\/li>\n<li>Allison Prize for excellence in literature, Barnard College<\/li>\n<li>Phi Beta Kappa, Barnard College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":12176,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6335\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}