About
Rachel Gaubinger is an Assistant Professor of English at Connecticut College, where she joined the faculty in 2017. She teaches across both Victorian and modernist literary periods, contributing to the vibrant intellectual community of the English Department.
Educational Background:
- Ph.D. and M.A. from Princeton University
- B.A. from Columbia University
Professor Gaubinger's research brings together Victorian and modernist studies, with a particular focus on questions of genealogy, affect, and narrative form in British literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her current book manuscript, "Sibling Plots: Form and Family in British Modernism," examines how modernist fiction invokes and reworks the family plots of Victorian realism. She argues that sibling characters prove central to modernist writers exploring the legacies of inherited familial and narrative structures while departing from the reproductive emphasis of the marriage plot. An article derived from this project recently appeared in The Journal of Modern Literature.
Her teaching reflects her scholarly interests, with courses including Victorian Serial Fiction, The Invention of Adolescence, Ulysses: Origins to Afterlife, Form and Family in Modernist Fiction, Sex, Gender, Modernism, and Desire and Disappointment in the Victorian Novel. Professor Gaubinger's approach to literature spans historical periods while maintaining a consistent theoretical engagement with narrative form and affect.
Professor Gaubinger's specializations include:
- Victorian literature
- Modernist literature
- Narrative theory
- Affect studies
- Queer theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Gender and women's studies
Through her teaching and scholarship, Professor Gaubinger contributes to the English Department's commitment to exploring diverse literary traditions and emerging fields within the humanities. Her work connects historical literary periods with contemporary theoretical frameworks, offering students a rich understanding of how literature engages with questions of family, identity, and narrative structure across time.
