Thomas Albrecht

Thomas Albrecht is a Professor of English and Chairperson of the English Department at Tulane University, where he has taught since 2003. He holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Irvine.

His research focuses on 19th-century British and European literature, including narrative fiction, literary realism, and British women writers. He also explores critical theory, aesthetic philosophy, psychoanalysis, and feminist literary criticism. Current projects include studies on Victorian aestheticism’s ethical dimensions and single women in 19th-century novels.

Albrecht has authored The Medusa Effect (2009) and The Ethical Vision of George Eliot (2020), and edited Selected Writings (2007) by Sarah Kofman. His work engages with thinkers like Freud, Pater, and Althusser.