Dehn Gilmore

Dehn Gilmore is a Professor of English and Executive Officer for the Humanities at the California Institute of Technology. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University, M.Phil. from University of Cambridge (Trinity College), and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her academic career at Caltech spans from Assistant Professor (2009-15) to Professor (2015-present) and Executive Officer (2022-present).

• B.A., Harvard University (2002)
• M.Phil., University of Cambridge (Trinity College) (2003)
• M.Phil., Columbia University (2005)
• Ph.D., Columbia University (2009)

Her research focuses on the interplay between Victorian literature and visual culture. Key areas include the influence of art markets, museums, exhibitions, and critical discourse on the Victorian novel's formal development. Current projects explore Victorian disproportional reality and the relationship between literature and artistic representation.

Research trends indicate expertise in Victorian literary form, visual media, and cultural context. Awards include the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Article Prize and Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Teaching includes advanced courses on Victorian crime fiction, literature and medicine, and British women writers post-Austen.

• Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Article Prize
• Gates Cambridge Scholar