Nicolle Jordan
Associate Professor
Bio
Nicolle Jordan is an Associate Professor of British Literature. She teaches and writes about British literature and culture of the long eighteenth-century, with emphasis on landscape and women鈥檚 writing. She has published articles on Anne Finch, Jane Barker, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Elizabeth Montagu, Sarah Scott, and Maria Graham. Her manuscript-in-progress is entitled 鈥淧rolific Ground: Landscape in British Women鈥檚 Writing, 1690-1780.鈥�
- 18th-Century British Women Writers, Literature and Landscape (PHD) - Brown University (2002)
- MA - Brown University (1999)
- BA - Wesleyan University (1992)
Gardens and Landscapes in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
British Literatures of the Environment (co-taught with Dr. Damon Franke)
Women鈥檚 Literary History
World Literature: Marriage, the Primal Union: From the Old Testament to the New Normal
Literary Analysis
- "Maria Graham鈥檚 Tropical Landscaping of Brazilian Independence" , eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics, 2022,
- 鈥溾�楾hose Stately Palaces鈥�: Tribute and Estates in the Work of Anne Finch and Jane Barker鈥� , The Circuit of Apollo: Eighteenth-Century Women鈥檚 Tributes to Women, 2019
- 鈥淢aria Graham鈥檚 Chilean Landscape of Independence.鈥� , XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, 2019
- 鈥淎nne Finch and the Fallen Country House.鈥� , The Intellectual Culture of the British Country House. Eds. Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield, and Margaret Healy , 2015
- 鈥溾�業 Writ These Lines on the Body of the Tree鈥�: Jane Barker鈥檚 Arboreal Poetics.鈥�, Invaluable trees: cultures of nature, 1660-1830. Eds. Laura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, and Giulia Pacini , 2012
- 鈥淕entlemen and Gentle Women: The Landscape Ethos in Millenium Hall.鈥� , Eighteenth-Century Fiction , 2011
- 鈥淎 Creole Contagion: Narratives of Slavery and Tainted Wealth in Millenium Hall.鈥� , Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature , 2011
- 鈥淔rom Pastoral to Georgic: Modes of Negotiating Social Mobility in Elizabeth Montagu鈥檚 Correspondence.鈥� , Eighteenth-Century Women , 2010
- 鈥淓astern Pastoral: 鈥楩emale Fears鈥� and 鈥楽avage Foes鈥� in Montagu鈥檚 鈥楥onstantinople.鈥欌�� , Modern Philology, 2010
- Mark Netzloff, ed., John Norden鈥檚 The Surveyor鈥檚 Dialogue (1618): A Critical Edition. Ed. Mark Netzloff., Seventeenth-Century News , 2011
- French (Limited Working)