University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Julia Saville

Associate Professor

Office: 313 English
Office Phone: 333-0026

Courses

ENGLISH 537: “Contested Manliness: Shifting Perspectives of Masculinity 1845-1900”
ENGLISH 537: “Aesthetics and Aestheticism in Victorian Literature”
ENGLISH 537: “Words and Images: Visual and Verbal Arts in Victorian Britain”
ENGLISH 455: Major Authors: “Gerard Manley Hopkins and Oscar Wilde”
ENGLISH 455: Major Authors: “Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins”
ENGLISH 435: “Nineteenth-Century British Fiction”
ENGLISH 434: “Victorian Poetry and Non-Fiction Prose”
ENGLISH 300: Writing about Literature: “Oxford Aestheticism”
ENGLISH 300: Writing about Literature: “Victorian Women Poets”
ENGLISH 396: Hon. Sem. I: “Contested Manliness: Perspectives on Victorian Masculinity”
ENGLISH 210: Survey: “British Literature 1798 to the Present”
ENGLISHI 247: “The British Novel”

Academic History

Julia Saville did her undergraduate degree and teacher's diploma at the University of Natal in South Africa. She did her Masters degree in English under J. M. Coetzee at the University of Cape Town before going to Stanford, California to do her Masters and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. She taught for four years at the University of Houston before moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Fall 1997.

Areas of Specialization

Victorian Cultural Studies (special focus on Republicanism and Cosmopolitanism); Victorian Poetry, Painting, and Photography; the Nineteenth-Century Novel; Gender Studies; Theories of the Visual; Aesthetic Theory; Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory.

Awards & Honors

2005-2006: Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Lynn Martin Award for Distinguished Women Teachers 2004: Robert Schneider Award for outstanding teaching and service to the English Department Cited on the University of Illinois List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students:

Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006

Publications

Book:

A Queer Chivalry: the Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Articles:

"Gerard Manley Hopkins," Encyclopedia of British Literature, Oxford and London: Oxford University Press, 2006. "The Poetic Imaging of Michael Field," in The Fin de Siecle Poem. Ed. Joseph Bristow. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005, 178-206. "Eccentricity as Englishness in David Copperfield." Studies in English Literature, 42.4 (Autumn 2002): 781-797. "Marriage and Gender," The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry London: Blackwell, 2002, pp. 526-542. "The Romance of Boys Bathing: Poetic Precedents and Respondents to the Paintings of Henry Scott Tuke," in Victorian Sexual Dissidence Ed. Richard Dellamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. pp. 253-277. "Of Fleshly Garments: Ascesis and Desire in the Ethic of Psychoanalysis," American Imago, Special Issue on "The Body," Volume 49.4 (Fall 1992): 60-75. "The Lady of Shalott. A Lacanian Romance," Word and Image Volume 8.1 (January March 1992): 71-87

Review Essays:

David Wayne Thomas. Cultivating Victorians: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic, in Nineteenth-Century Literature 59.3 (December 2004): 415-418. Jerome McGann. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost. Modern Philology, 100.2 (November 2002): 311-314. "Yopie Prins, Victorian Sappho." Criticism 42.1 (Winter 2000): 131-134. "Beyond an Imperial Ego-Politics," review of Christopher Lane, The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire. LGSN 23.3 (Fall 1996):27-28. Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan & Co: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985. Trans. Jeffrey Mehlman. MLN\Comparative Literature Issue 106.5 (December 1991):1066-1069. Jonathan Culler, Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions. MLN\Comparative Literature Issue, 104.5 (December 1989) 1183-1186.

Syllabi:

"Contested Manliness: Shifting Perspectives of Victorian Masculinity 1850-1910," LGSN 23.2 (Summer 1996): 11-13.

Work in Progress

Cosmopolitan Republican Poetics: 1845-1900.