Curriculum Vitae
Academic Appointments
Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow in European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2021-August 2022.
Haarlow-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Lecturer in the Council of Humanities, English, and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University, July 2018-July 2021.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Bard College, 2016-2018.
Education
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, Yale University, May 2017
B.A., English; certificate in LGBT Studies, University of Maryland-College Park, 2008, summa cum laude
Book (Oxford University Press, 2024):
Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant Bodies
Peer-Reviewed Publications
”Oscar Wilde’s Flesh and Fashion’s Failures.” (forthcoming chapter commissioned for Cambridge Critical Concepts volume on Fashion and Literature, ed. Elizabeth Sheehan)
“Biography, Portraiture, and the Victorian Heroics of Blindness: The Case of Henry Fawcett, MP.” Word & Image, 40.4 (Winter 2024): 221-237.
“Finding The Irish Girl: Race, Displacement, and the Aesthetic Promise of Portraiture.” Literature Compass (August 2021): 1-26.
“Intersex Aestheticism and Transgenre Mediation: Swinburne’s Ekphrastic Androgynes.” Victorian Poetry 57.4 (Winter 2019): 489-509.
“Beside Women: Charles Dickens, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Reparative Lesbian Literary History.” GLQ: Queers Read This. 24.2-3 (Spring 2018): 267-289.
“‘The Dead Man Come to Life Again’: Edward Albert and the Strategies of Black Endurance.” Victorian Literature and Culture 45.2 (June 2017): 293-320.
“The Non-Taxonomical Mayhew.” Victorian Studies 57.3 (Spring 2015): 433-444.
Other Published Writing
“Edward E. Boccia: Postwar American Expressionist” (February 2025).
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/artseen/edward-e-boccia-postwar-american-expressionist-1/
“EARLY/MODERN/ITALY,” Critics Page, editor and contributor (November 2024).
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/11/criticspage/early-modern-italy/
“Love Trumps Paranoia or, Towards a Reparative Pedagogy.” V21 collective (June 2018).
http://v21collective.org/love-trumps-paranoia-towards-reparative-pedagogy/
“Disability, Queer Time, and ‘We Other Victorians.’” V21 collective (June 2015)
http://v21collective.org/natlie-prizel-disability-theory-queer-time-and-we-other-victorians/
Reviews
Review of Jonah Siegel, Overlooking Damage: Art, Display, and Loss in Times of Crisis in Victorian Studies (forthcoming)
Review of Kylee-Anne Hingston, Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction in Victorian Studies 63.2 (Winter 2021): 310-312.
Review of Clare Walker Gore, Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel for Nineteenth-Century Contexts 42.4 (2020): 476-478.
Review of Rethinking Modern Prosthesis in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820-1939, ed. Claire L. Jones (Manchester University Press 2017) for Victorian Studies 61.1 (Autumn 2018): 130-132.
Review of Stephen Cheeke, Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature Before Aestheticism (Oxford University Press, 2016) for Nineteenth-Century Contexts 40.4 (2018): 414-416.
