Magdalena Nerio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Instruction, English
Contact
- MH 4.05.14
- 210-823-4087
- magdalena.nerio@utsa.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Bio
Professor Magdalena Nerio is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of English at The University of Texas at San Antonio. She teaches and writes about English and American literature and culture, c. 1660–1870, with particular interests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary history, women’s writing, literature and the public sphere, and the relationship between literature and social reform.
Her scholarship has addressed Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, and Margaret Fuller. Her current research focuses on Victorian literature and culture, religious and ethical communities, networks of care, and nineteenth-century representations of conscience, social responsibility, and reform.
Teaching
Professor Nerio teaches courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American literature, Shakespeare, seventeenth-century poetry, Early American literature, literary criticism and analysis, and technical writing.
Recent and recurring courses include Victorian Literature and Visual Culture; Jane Austen and Her Predecessors; How to Read a Poem; The Country and the City; Romantic Excess: Superfluity and the Sublime in British Romantic Literature; and American Snobs: Henry James and Edith Wharton.
Research Interests
- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American literature and culture
- Literary history
- Victorian literature and culture
- Romanticism
- Women’s writing
- Literature and the public sphere; nineteenth-century social reform
- Epistolary form
- Feminist literary history
- Margaret Fuller and the New England Transcendentalists
- Shakespeare and the history of Shakespeare criticism
Degrees
- Ph.D. in English, University of Notre Dame (2013)
- M.A. in English, University of Notre Dame (2009)
- B.A. in English, Brown University (2004)
Honors and Awards
Minnie Helen Hicks Prize, Brown University, 2004
Presentations
“Everyday Tactics: Dissent in Gaskell’s Ruth (1853),” for a special panel on C. 19 realism titled “The Everyday Beyond Description,” for the annual meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Niagara Falls, NY, March 2023.
“‘My heart cries out against God’s will’: Gender and the Devotional Impulse in Margaret Oliphant’s Autobiography (1899) and the Seventeenth-Century Diary of Anne Clifford (1603- 1619),” essay prepared for the “Margaret Oliphant in Context” conference, hosted by the University of Leicester, England, UK, July 2015.
“Private Sentiment, Political Emotion: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Love Letters,” essay prepared for the BWWC (British Women Writers Conference), hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York, New York, June, 2015.
“‘My heart cries out against God’s will’: Gender and the Devotional Impulse in Margaret Oliphant’s Autobiography (1899) and the Seventeenth-Century Diary of Anne Clifford (1603- 1619),” essay prepared for the “Margaret Oliphant in Context” conference, hosted by the University of Leicester, England, UK, July 2015.
“Private Sentiment, Political Emotion: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Love Letters,” essay prepared for the BWWC (British Women Writers Conference), hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York, New York, June, 2015.
Publications
Selected Publications:
“Everyday Habits: The Representation of Dissent in Gaskell’s Ruth.” The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Edited by Elizabeth Ludlow and Rebecca Styler. Forthcoming, 2024.
“Activist Discourse and the Origins of Feminist Shakespeare Studies.” Multicultural Shakespeare. Forthcoming, 2023.
“Mrs. A. Kendall, Derwent Priory (1798).” The Cambridge Guide to the to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
“Olivia Wilmot Serres, St. Julian: In A Series of Letters (1805).” The Cambridge Guide to the to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
“The ‘Unfeudal Tone’ in Context: Teaching Persuasion through Mary Wollstonecraft.” Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Persuasion. Ed. Marcia Folsom and John Wiltshire. Modern Language Association, 2020.
“Genteel Appropriations of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Lady Louisa Stuart, William Moy Thomas, and the Rigors of Victorian Memoir.” Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Brenda Ayres. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
“Everyday Habits: The Representation of Dissent in Gaskell’s Ruth.” The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Edited by Elizabeth Ludlow and Rebecca Styler. Forthcoming, 2024.
“Activist Discourse and the Origins of Feminist Shakespeare Studies.” Multicultural Shakespeare. Forthcoming, 2023.
“Mrs. A. Kendall, Derwent Priory (1798).” The Cambridge Guide to the to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
“Olivia Wilmot Serres, St. Julian: In A Series of Letters (1805).” The Cambridge Guide to the to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
“The ‘Unfeudal Tone’ in Context: Teaching Persuasion through Mary Wollstonecraft.” Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Persuasion. Ed. Marcia Folsom and John Wiltshire. Modern Language Association, 2020.
“Genteel Appropriations of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Lady Louisa Stuart, William Moy Thomas, and the Rigors of Victorian Memoir.” Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Brenda Ayres. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
