Dr Nadia Valman, BA (Cambridge) MA (Leeds) PhD (London)
Senior Lecturer
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8576
email: n.d.valman@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Nadia Valman's research focuses on religion, politics and gender in nineteenth-century literary culture, with a particular interest in discourses surrounding Jews. She has published a number of articles on debates about Jews in the work of Jewish and non-Jewish writers in the Victorian period as well as the monograph The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture (CUP, 2007) which explores the story of the Jewess as it unfolds across a range of literary texts throughout the century. She is currently completing three editing projects: a collection of essays on the Victorian Anglo-Jewish writer Amy Levy, a collection entitled British Jewish Women Writers and a book examining contradictory imaginings of ‘the Jew’ in the Edwardian period around the nexus or Britain, Africa and Palestine. In 2004 Nadia was awarded a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. In her most recent research, Nadia is exploring the literary history of the East End of London. She is the editor of the journal Jewish Culture and History.
Nadia welcomes research students in any area of nineteenth-century literature, particularly the novel, and in any area of Anglo-Jewish literature.
Publications:
'The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture' by Nadia Valman
(Recent publications)
Books
Amy Levy: Critical Essays,co-edited with Naomi Hetherington (Athens:Ohio University Press, 2010)
The 'Jew' in Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa, co-edited with Eitan Bar-Yosef (Palgrave, forthcoming, 2009)
The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture (CUP, 2007)
The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914, co-edited with Bryan Cheyette (Vallentine Mitchell, 2004)
Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews': Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Tony Kushner (Ashgate, 2004)
Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society, co-edited with Tony Kushner (Vallentine Mitchell, 1999)
Articles
'Introduction', co-written with Naomi Hetherington, in Amy Levy: Critical Essays, ed. by Naomi Hetherington and Nadia Valman (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010), 1-36
'Amy Levy and the Literary Representation of the Jewess', in Amy Levy: Critical Essays, ed.by Naomi Hetherington and Nadia Valman (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010), 90-109
'The East End Bildungsroman from Israel Zangwill to Monica Ali', Wasafiri, 24.1 (March 2009), 4-9
'Little Jew Boys Made Good: Immigration, Anglo-Jewish Fiction and the South African War', in The 'Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa, ed. by Eitan Bar-Yosef and Nadia Valman (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009), 45-64
'Between the East End and East Africa: Rethinking The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture, introduction co-written with Eitan Bar-Yosef, in 'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa, ed. by Eitan Bar-Yosef and Nadia Valman (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009), 1-27
‘“The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Met”: Literary Representations of the Jewish Mother’, chapter in For Generations: Jewish Mothers, ed. by Mandy Ross and Ronne Randall (Five Leaves, 2005), pp 58-66
‘Barbarous and Medieval: Jewish Marriage in Fin de Siècle English Fiction’, chapter in The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914, ed by Bryan Cheyette and Nadia Valman (Vallentine Mitchell, 2004), pp111-129
‘Introduction: Liberalism and Antisemitism’, in The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914, ed by Bryan Cheyette and Nadia Valman (Vallentine Mitchell, 2004), pp 1-26
‘Aguilar, Grace (1816-1847)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP, 2004)
‘A Fresh-Made Garment of Citizenship: Representing Jewish Identities in Victorian Britain’, Nineteenth Century Studies, 17 (2003), 35-45
‘Manly Jews: Disraeli, Jewishness and Gender’, chapter in Disraeli’s Jewishness, ed by Tony Kushner and Todd Endelman (Vallentine Mitchell, 2002), pp 62-101
‘Hearts Full of Love for Israel: Converting the Jews in Victorian England’, Jewish Quarterly, 182 (Summer 2001), 15-20
‘Women Writers and the Campaign for Jewish Civil Rights in Early Victorian England’, chapter in Women in British Politics, 1760-1860: The Power of the Petticoat, ed by Kathryn Gleadle and Sarah Richardson (Palgrave, 2000), pp 93-114
‘Jewish Girls and the Battle of Cable Street’, chapter in Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society, ed. by Tony Kushner and Nadia Valman (Vallentine Mitchell, 1999), pp 181-194
‘Semitism and Criticism: Victorian Anglo-Jewish Literary History’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 27.1 (1999), 235-24
‘Speculating upon human feeling: Evangelical writing and Anglo-Jewish women's autobiography’, chapter in The Uses of Autobiography, ed by Julia Swindells (Taylor and Francis, 1995), pp 98-109