David Kurnick

Short Biography

David Kurnick is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he teaches in nineteenth-century literature, the history of the novel, and sexuality studies. He is working on a book about the aftereffects of failed dramatic ambition on the formal innovations of major novelists, including Thackeray, George Eliot, Henry James, and James Joyce, to be entitled Empty Houses: Frustrated Dramatists and the Novel of Interiority. His essays have appeared in Victorian Studies, ELH, and The Henry James Review.