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Ryan, Vanessa Person

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Associate Dean, Graduate School, Brown University 2014 -

Vanessa Ryan is Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Brown University. As Associate Dean of Student Development, she supports graduate student success, enhances excellence in teaching and communication, and supports professional development across Brown's PhD and Master's programs. Her research focuses on 19th-century British literature and culture, science and literature, and debates over the status of literature and humanistic inquiry in relation to other forms of knowledge.

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- Victorian Empiricism: Self, Knowledge, and Reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot , by Peter Garratt . Victorian studies. 54:525-527. 2012
- IVLiving in Duplicate: Victorian Science and Literature Today. Critical inquiry. 38:411-417. 2012
- Reading the Mind: From George Eliot's Fiction to James Sully's Psychology. Journal of the History of Ideas. 70:615-635. 2009
- Fictions of Medical Minds: Victorian Novels and Medical Epistemology. Literature and Medicine. 25:277-297. 2006
- The Review of English Studies Prize Essay the Unreliable Editor: Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and the Art of Biography. The Review of English Studies. 54:287-307. 2003
- Why Clough? Why Now?. Victorian Poetry. 41:504-512. 2003
- The Physiological Sublime: Burke's Critique of Reason. Journal of the History of Ideas. 62:265-279. 2001