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Associate Professor
Director of the CLAS Learning Community Institute
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., English Literature, Brown University
LL 224
- (480) 965-7752
- E-mail: DBivona@asu.edu
Web page with course syllabi: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dbivona/
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My first two books focused on the relationship between British imperialism and nineteenth- and twentieth-century British culture. Desire and Contradiction (Manchester UP, 1990) treats the relationship between the imperial project and domestic culture in the nineteenth century and British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire (published by Cambridge University Press, 1998) focuses on the administrative ethos of bureaucratic rule as it is constructed and contested in a variety of works ranging from the travel narratives of H. M. Stanley and T. E. Lawrence, to the fiction of Kipling, Conrad, Cary, and Orwell, to the apologetics of such imperial administrators as Lord Cromer and Frederick Lugard. My newest book The Imagination of Class (Ohio State UP, 2006), is a study of the Victorian middle class construction of urban poverty ranging from Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew to Jack London, Beatrice Webb, and Arthur Morrison. My teaching interests and experience include literary theory, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, Darwinism, sexuality studies, adventure fiction, Victorian and Modernist literature, and the history of the novel.
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