Rate My Professor Lillian Nayder

Nayder's research focuses on nineteenth-century British fiction, particularly Charles Dickens and his family, Wilkie Collins, and sensation fiction. She is the author of The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth (Cornell University Press, 2011), the first comprehensive biography of Dickens's wife; Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship (Cornell University Press, 2002); and Wilkie Collins (Twayne Publishers, 1997). Her publications also include chapters such as “Science and Sensation” in The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013), “A Tale of Two Brothers” in Reading Dickens Differently (2020), and numerous articles in Dickens Quarterly and other journals. Nayder's scholarship has broader impact through public outreach, including guest curating the exhibition “The Other Dickens: Discovering Catherine” at the Charles Dickens Museum in London in 2016, BBC Radio and television interviews, and the 2023 Teaching Company lecture series “London in the Time of Dickens.” Current projects include Charles Dickens: A Fraternal Life and Corporeal Dickens. She teaches courses on Jane Austen, the Brontës, Dickens, Victorian crime fiction, the Gothic tradition, and medical humanities topics like Fictions of Affliction and The Arctic Sublime.