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Jules Law is a Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University, holding a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on literary theory, Victorian literature, and interdisciplinary topics such as psychoanalysis, ethics, gender studies, and critical theory. He is affiliated with the graduate faculty and teaches at University Hall 313.
Law’s scholarship includes seminal works like The Social Life of Fluids: Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel (2010) and The Rhetoric of Empiricism (1993). His current project, Virtual Victorians, explores technologies of immediation in 19th-century novels. His essays span journals like PMLA, Critical Inquiry, and Victorian Studies, addressing themes like virtual reality, stereoscopic technology, and epistemological questions in literature.
Law has been honored with the Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching (2007) and the Centro Romero Community Leadership award (2008), reflecting his dedication to pedagogy and public service. His work bridges theoretical rigor with empirical engagement, often interrogating the intersections of culture, technology, and narrative form.
