Joseph W. Childers
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

2109 Humanities and Social Sciences
(951) 827-1829
joseph.childers@ucr.edu

Winter 2007 Schedule:

English 125C: Development of the English Novel (20th Century)
MWF: 9:10-10; Olmsted 1212

Office Hours: MWF 10:30-12; T 11-12:15 and by Appt.

Joe Childers specializes in Marxist, post-Marxist, and historicist theory and criticism; the English novel; and Victorian studies, with recent focus on working-class and immigrant literature. He is the author of Novel Possibilities: Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995) and coauthor of The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (Columbia UP Press, 1995). He has published articles and essays on a wide variety of topics, including Edwin Chadwick and the discursive formation of the Victorian working classes, class resistance and Victorian domesticity, and theorizing the imperialized subject in the metropolis. Some of his recent work includes, “Foreign Matter” in Filth, edited by William Cohen and Ryan Johnson ( Minnesota , 2005), "Outside Looking In: Colonial, Immigrants, and the Pleasure of the Archive" in Victorian Studies (2004) and “Political Dickens,” an essay on Dickens’s journalism in Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies (2006).  He is the coeditor of two forthcoming collections, Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal (James Buzard and Eileen Gillooly, University of Virginia Press, 2007) and Sublime Economy: Aesthetics, Economics, Value ! ! (wit h Stephen Cullenberg and Jack Amariglio, Routledge, 2007).  Childers has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities for his current project on minority discourse and literary culture in nineteenth-century England.  He is also on the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism. He has been a faculty member of the UC Dickens Project since 1989. In 2001 he was the recipient of the UC, Riverside Distinguished Teaching Award.  In 2006-2007 he is the faculty coordinator of a Mellon research group on The Global 19^th Century.

Mellon Workshop on the Global Nineteenth Century