Paul Vita, Ph.D.
Department of English
On leave
Education
Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. English Literature, Columbia University
B.A. English, Yale University
Practice Areas
- 19th-Century British Literature
- The Novel and Narrative Theory
- International Educational
Publications and Media Placements
Books
Vita, P. & Huguet, C. (2016). Unsettling Dickens: Process, Progress and Change. Paris: Sagittaire.
Vita, P., Villa, L., Vescovi, A. (2009). Victorians and Italy: Travel, Literature, Politics, and Art. Parma: Polemetrica.
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
Vita, P. & Bikandi A. (2017). "Spain's Literature of the City." In Tambling, Jeremy (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City. Palgrave.
Vita, P. (2014). "'Indignation taking the form of nuts': A Reading of Dickens' Audiences." In Kujawska-Lis, E. (Ed.), Reflections on/of Dickens. Cambridge Scholars Press.
Vita, P. (2014). "Conversation and the Comic Novel: Don Quixote and The Pickwick Papers." In Lennartz, N., Koch, D. (Ed.), Texts, Contexts, Intertextuality: Dickens as a Reader. G枚ttingen: Van denhoeck & Ruprecht.
Vita, P. (2013). "Revisiting Dickens in Spain." In Coll-Vinent, S., Ort铆n, M. (Ed.), Dickens en la cultura catalana. La recepci贸 i les traduccions. Barcelona: Punctum.
Galv谩n, F., Vita, P. (2013). "The Spanish Dickens: Under Cervantes's Inevitable Shadow." In Hollington, M. (Ed.), The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe. Continuum.
Vita, P. (2010). "Undertaking in Italy: Dickens, Dialogism and the Dead." In Hollington, M., Orestano, F. (Ed.), Dickens and Italy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Vita, P. (2007). "Cervantes, Borrow, and Bakhtin: Authenticity and Narrative." La Huella Cervantina y del Quijote en la Cultura Anglosajona. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, Centro Buend铆a.
Vita, P. (2006). "Teaching Wuthering Heights Through Close Reading / Teaching Close Reading Through Wuthering Heights." In Hasseler, T., Lonoff, De Cuevas, S. (Ed.), Approaches to Teaching Wuthering Heights. New York, NY: MLA.
Vita, P. (2003). "Returning the Look: Victorian Writers and the Paris Morgue." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 25(3), 241-56.
Vita, P. (2002). "A Loss for Words: Resignation and the Victorian Epitaph." AJVC: Australasian Journal of Victorian Culture, 7, 122-136.
Vita, P. (1999). "In Keeping with Modern Views: Publishing Epitaphs in Victorian England." Victorian Review, 25(1), 14-34.