Christopher Herbert
English Department Chair
Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities
University Hall Room 324
Telephone: (847) 491-3637
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: c-herbert@northwestern.edu
Christopher Herbert (Ph.D. Yale University) is a Victorianist specializing in the novel and in cultural and intellectual history. He is the author of Trollope and Comic Pleasure (Chicago, 1987), Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1991), and Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery (Chicago, 2001), as well as articles on Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Henry Mayhew, Bram Stoker, Virginia Woolf, and various issues of nineteenth-century scientific and social thought. His most recent book, War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma, was published by Princeton University Press in late 2007. He has received an NEH and two ACLS Fellowships and two WCAS Outstanding Teaching Awards
Publications by Christopher Herbert
War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma
Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the 19th Century
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The English Major in Writing Celebrates 30 Years on campus
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Jo Ann Beard, Frank Bidart, and George Saunders were Writers in Residence for the English Major in Writing’s 3rd Annual Spring Writers’ Festival
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Creative Writing students congregate at the 3rd Annual Spring Writer’s Festival
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English Department faculty attend one of the talks organized as part of the annual One Book, One Northwestern program
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Writing students Cathy Gao (left) and Alleliah Nuguid (right) meet writer Elizabeth Benedict (center) at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Northwestern writing students Matt Pacult, Cathy Gao, and Alleliah Nuguid meet poet Frank Bidart at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Professors Mary Kinzie and John Keene celebrate 30 Years of creative writing at Northwestern
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Professors Wendy Wall (Avalon Foundation Professor, left) and Reginald Gibbons (Frances Hooper Chair in the Arts and Humanities, right) at their inauguration, with Professor Christopher Herbert
