Daniela Garofalo

Daniela Garofalo is a Professor of Classics and Letters at The University of Oklahoma. She specializes in British Romantic literature, with emphases on the early Victorian period and Lacanian theory. Her research intersects gender studies, political theory, and economic theory. Garofalo authored Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (2008) and Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism (2012), co-edited Lacan and Romanticism (2019), and published widely on Jane Austen, John Keats, Emily Brontë, and others.

She chaired the English department from 2014–2019 and received notable awards including the 2012 Patten Teaching Award and the 2020 Student Government Association Outstanding Faculty Award. Her work interrogates themes like power dynamics, gender performativity, and commodity culture through close textual analysis and theoretical frameworks.