Brian Reinken

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2023
• M.A.: Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2019
• B.A.: English and Political Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2016

Specialties

• Nineteenth-Century Literature
• Victorian Studies
• Empire and Colonialism
• Literary History
• Ecocriticism
• Global Anglophone Literature
• Film and Media Theory

Publications

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Publications

• "Fossil Hunts and Fuel Exhaustion in Late Victorian Fiction." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 58, no. 2, (Winter 2025) 209–28. DOI: 10.1215/00295132-12182253

• “Characterization and Categorization in Mary Barton.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 62, no. 4 (Autumn 2024): 729–49. DOI: 10.1353/sel.2024.a941808

• “Unsettlement: Destabilizing Development in Southern Africa’s Settler Fiction.” ELH 90, no. 1 (2023): 205–35. DOI: 10.1353/elh.2023.0007

• “Cosmopocalypse: From Prophetic Vision to Political Foresight in George Eliot’s Romola.” Victorian Literature and Culture 51, no. 2 (2022): 233–59. DOI: 10.1017/S1060150322000055

• “Recasting India’s Organicism in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim.” Victorian Review 47, no. 2 (2021): 263–79. DOI: 10.1353/vcr.2021.0033

Courses

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Courses

• CSCL 1401W: Reading Literature
• CSCL / SCMC 3220W: Screen Cultures
• CSCL / SCMC 3221: On Television