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Ronjaunee Chatterjee

Biography

I am a scholar of nineteenth-century British and French literature with broad expertise in queer and feminist theory, critical race, postcolonial, and decolonial theory, psychonanalysis, and continental philosophy. I have taught in the department of Gender and Women카지노 게임 컬렉션s Studies at Loyola Marymount 카지노게임사이트, and the School of Critical Studies at CalArts. My first book, Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Stanford 카지노게임사이트 Press, 2022), argues that there are figurations of the feminine across literary genres in the nineteenth century that are not accessible through the frameworks of liberal individualism. I offer the term singularity instead to describe a model of subjecthood grounded in what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely 카지노 게임 컬렉션alone.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Feminine Singularity won Honorable Mention for the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian Studies from the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (2024).

I am the editor of George Eliot's Middlemarch (A Norton Critical Edition, January 2024). I have co-edited a special issue of Victorian Studies (with Alicia Mireles Christoff and Amy R. Wong, 2020) and cowritten an introductory essay, "Undisciplining Victorian Studies," which won the NAVSA Donald Gray Prize for Best Essay in Victorian Studies. I'm currently at work on a second book project addressing diagrams and the diagrammatic in the work of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the artists Nasreen Mohamedi and Zarina Hashmi. I have presented portions of this project at UNC, the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto, UVA, and Harvard 카지노게임사이트's Mahindra Humanities Center. My essays and reviews have been published in or are forthcoming in differences, PMLA, MediationsVictorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Literature, ASAP Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, and other publications. From 2021-2023, my research is supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (30,000$). 


 

Selected Publications

Middlemarch (Norton Critical Edition)

W.W Norton & Company
2024

This Norton Critical Edition includes: 

  • The 1874 corrected edition of the text, with small textual variations from Eliot카지노 게임 컬렉션s manuscript. 
  • Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Ronjaunee Chatterjee. 
  • Twenty-three background selections from Eliot카지노 게임 컬렉션s correspondence, journals, and other writings. 
  • Seventeen critical responses, including five contemporary reactions and twelve critical analyses of the novel카지노 게임 컬렉션s most important themes. 
  • A chronology of Eliot카지노 게임 컬렉션s life and a selected bibliography.

Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Stanford 카지노게임사이트 Press
2022

What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity카지노 게임 컬렉션for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "alone"? Feminine Singularity offers a powerful feminist theory of the subject카지노 게임 컬렉션and shows us paths to thinking subjectivity, race, and gender anew in literature and in our wider social world.

Through fresh, sophisticated readings of Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Charles Baudelaire, and Wilkie Collins in conversation with psychoanalysis, Black feminist and queer-of-color theory, and continental philosophy, Ronjaunee Chatterjee uncovers a lexicon of feminine singularity that manifests across poetry and prose through likeness and minimal difference, rather than individuality and identity. Reading for singularity shows us the ways femininity is fundamentally entangled with racial difference in the nineteenth century and well into the contemporary, as well as how rigid categories can be unsettled and upended. 

Grappling with the ongoing violence embedded in the Western liberal imaginary, Feminine Singularity invites readers to commune with the subversive potentials in nineteenth-century literature for thinking subjectivity today.

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Books 

  • Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Stanford 카지노게임사이트 Press, August 2022). Honorable Mention, Sonya Rudikoff Prize.
  • Editor, Middlemarch by George Eliot (Norton Critical Editions, 2024)

Editorial Work 

  • Co-editor,  Special Issue of Victorian Studies 62, no. 3 (Spring 2020)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters 

  • "Negative Totalization" PMLA, Special Issue on "Marxism and The Interpretation of Culture at 40" (May 2025).
  • "Fascia:1861-1880." In preparation for The Cambridge History of Victorian Women's Writing (eds. Carolyn Dever and Amy Huseby).
  • "Realism and Gender." Forthcoming in Realism and the Novel: A Literary History (Cambridge UP).
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  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Middlemarch: A Grown-Up Novel.카지노 게임 컬렉션 George Eliot카지노 게임 컬렉션George Henry Lewes Studies 2:21 (2021).
  • Introduction (co-written with Alicia Mireles Christoff and Amy R. Wong), 카지노 게임 컬렉션Undisciplining Victorian Studies.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Special Issue of Victorian Studies 62: 3 (Spring 2020). Winner of the NAVSA Donald Gray Prize.
  • Precarious Lives: Christina Rossetti and the Form of Likeness.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Victorian Literature and Culture 45:4 (2017).
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Charles Baudelaire and Feminine Singularity.카지노 게임 컬렉션 French Studies 70:1 (January 2016).

Review Essays

  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션The Colonial Mentality: Past and Present.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Review of The Global Indies by Ashley Cohen. The Los Angeles Review of Books (3 September 2021)
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Figure / Ground.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Response to The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons by Carolyn Lesjak. Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group (September 2021). 
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Closed off and Already Over?카지노 게임 컬렉션 Review Essay on Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel by Elaine Freedgood. Syndicate Literature (January 2021).
  • Replotting Marriage in the Nineteenth Century ed. Jill Galvan and Elsie Michie. Nineteenth-Century Literature 74.1(2019).
  • Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Cost of Everyday Life by Mari Ruti. ASAP/Journal (2018).
  • Willful Submissions: Sado-Erotics and Heavenly Marriage in Victorian Religious Poetry by Amanda Paxton. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 40:2 (2018).
  • Multimedia Archaeologies: Gabriele D카지노 게임 컬렉션Annunzio, Belle Époque Paris, and the Total Artwork by Andrea Mirabile. Comparative Literature Studies 53:1 (2016).

Essays and Public Writing 

  • "To the Bottom of the Unknown to Discover the New": Interview with Nathan Brown. Los Angeles Review of Books, 9 April 2025.
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Undisciplining Victorian Studies카지노 게임 컬렉션 (co-written with Alicia Mireles Christoff and Amy R. Wong). Los Angeles Review of Books, 10 July 2020.
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Politics, Inclusion, and Social Practice.카지노 게임 컬렉션 V21 Collective, 12 December 2016.
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Thinking Singularity.카지노 게임 컬렉션 V21 Collective, 20 April 2015.
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Ghostbusters.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Review of A Life with Mary Shelley by Barbara Johnson. The New Inquiry, 14 October 2014.
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션The Sins of the Fathers.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Review of Élizabeth Roudinesco카지노 게임 컬렉션s Lacan in Spite of Everything.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Los Angeles Review of Books, 1 June 2014.
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Alain Badiou in Southern California: A Politics of the Impossible.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Los Angeles Review of Books, 6 February 2014.
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Hitting on Infinity.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Review of Mari Ruti카지노 게임 컬렉션s The Singularity of Being.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Los Angeles Review of Books, 27 August 2013.
  • Review of Amit Chaudhuri카지노 게임 컬렉션s Calcutta. The Rumpus, 25 April 2013.


 

Additional Information

 Upcoming Invited Talks 

  • Book Launch for Feminine Singularity with the Psychosocial Foundation, virtual (Dec 4th, 2022) 
  • Presentation at the 18th and 19th-Century Colloquium, Yale 카지노게임사이트 (Dec 8th, 2022)
  • Seminar on Middlemarch at the 92Y, virtual (Jan/Feb/March 2023)
  • Roundtable on Love, Psychosocial Foundation (March 18th, 2023)
  • Critical Speaker Series, UNC Dept of English (March 22-24, 2023)
  • Book Talk at Northwestern 카지노게임사이트, virtual (April 27th, 2023)
  • Keynote Speaker, British Women Writers' Conference, UVA (May 24-28, 2023)
  • Invited Talk, 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto (September 26th, 2023)
  • Webinar on Middlemarch, Norton Critical Speaker Series (February 20th, 2024)
  • Invited Talk, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard 카지노게임사이트, Victorian Literature and Culture Seminar (April 17th, 2024).
Areas of Study
Critical Race Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Genres and Forms
Literary Theory and Criticism
Poetry and Poetics

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