Wendy Graham

Wendy Graham is Professor and Chair of English at Vassar College, specializing in British and American literature with expertise in gender theory, Victorian studies, and modernism. Her seminal works include Henry James’s Thwarted Love (1999), examining James through psychological and anthropological frameworks, and Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity (2017), analyzing Victorian artistic networks.

Research explores:

• 19th-century constructions of sexuality and class
• Pre-Raphaelite media representation
• Modernist narrative innovation

Publications focus on Henry James' literary evolution, economic themes in American realism, and Pre-Raphaelite cultural dynamics. Teaching integrates sociological frameworks like Veblen's leisure class theory with literary analysis.