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Eileen Cleere is a Professor of English and the inaugural Joanne Powers Austin Term Chair in English at Southwestern University. She specializes in Victorian literature, film studies, and feminist theory. Her research focuses on Victorian psychological models of child development and their influence on Young Adult literature. Cleere holds a PhD from Rice University (1996) and a BA from Scripps College (1989). She has held prestigious fellowships including the British Academy Fellowship (2000) and C.P. Snow Fellowship (2006).
Recent scholarly contributions include analyzing Jane Austen's pronatalism through a Victorian lens and exploring Victorian marriage norms in the context of modern #MeToo discourse. She currently leads the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS) as its president, organizing international conferences on trans-historical themes.
- Published works: Avuncularism (2004), The Sanitary Arts (2014), and Young Adult: Slow Psychology (in progress).
- Awarded Texas A&M's Women’s Studies Lunch Lecture (2008) and invited keynote talks at UC Santa Cruz and Texas State University.
Her research often bridges literary analysis with socio-cultural contexts, emphasizing intersections between aesthetics, hygiene movements, and gender politics in Victorian culture.
