Aviva Briefel

Associate Professor of English

Fall 2011

  • on leave for the fall 2011 semester
Phone 725-3014
Title Associate Professor
Department English
Work Location 205 Massachusetts Hall
E-Mail abriefel@bowdoin.edu
Aviva Briefel

Education:

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000

Teaching areas:

Victorian literature and culture; the horror film; women and film; cinematic adaptation.

Research interests:

Horror after 9/11 World of Fear, Cinema of Terror Edited by Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller Narratives of art forgery, the horror film, Victorian empire and the body, and the Victorian gothic.

Publications:

Book Projects:

Amputations: The Colonial Hand at the Fin de Siècle (In Progress)

Horror after 9/11 World of Fear, Cinema of Terror.  Volume on the politics of the horror film, co-edited with Sam J. Miller, University of Texas Press (November 2011)

The Decievers Cover "The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century", Cornell University Press (2006)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

The Men Who Knew Too Much: Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock (Oxford UP, 2012).

“The Potter’s Thumb/The Writer’s Hand: Manual Production and Victorian Colonial Narratives,” Novel 42.2 (2009): 253-60.

“Cosmetic Tragedies: Failed Masquerade in Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady,” Victorian Literature and Culture 37 (2009): 463-81.

The Men Who Knew Too Much: Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock (Oxford UP, 2012).“What Some Ghosts Don’t Know: Spectral Incognizance and the Horror Film,” Narrative 17.1 (Jan. 2009): 95-108.

 “Take Me: The Rhetoric of Donation,” The Anatomy of Body Worlds: Critical Essays on Gunther von Hagens’ Plastinated Cadavers, eds. T. Christine Jespersen, Alicita Rodríguez, and Joseph Starr (Jefferson, NC:  McFarland, 2008).

“Hands of Beauty, Hands of Horror: Fear and Egyptian Art at the Fin de Siècle,” Victorian Studies 50.2 (2008): 263-71.

"Monsters and Critics," Film Quarterly 61.3 (2008).

"Christina Rossetti," Encyclopedia of British Literary History, Oxford University Press.

"Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in the Horror Film," Film Quarterly 58.3 (2005)
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"Tautological Crimes: Why Women Can't Steal Jewels," Novel 37.1/2 (2004)

Review of Mighall, Robert, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Nineteenth-Century Contexts 25.3 (2003).

Horror Film Cover"Illusory Idols/Sacred Objects: The Fake in Freud's 'The Moses of Michelangelo,'" American Imago 60.1 (2003). To be reprinted in a collection by Cambridge Scholars Press.
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"'How much did you pay for this place?': Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman," Camera Obscura 37 (1997). Co-authored with Sianne Ngai. Reprinted in The Horror Film Reader, eds. Alain Silver and James Ursini (New York: Limelight Editions/Proscenium Publishers, 2000).

Reviews:


Review of Malton, Sara.  Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Litearture and Culture: Fictions of Finance from Dickens to Wilde (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), RAVoN 56 (Nov. 2009).

Review of Yeazell, Ruth Bernard.  Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel: Art of the Everyday (Princeton:Princeton UP, 2008), Nineteenth-Century Contexts 32 (March 2010): 79-81.

Review of Linett, Maren Tova, Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007), Novel 43.2 (Summer 2010): 361-63.

Review of Valman, Nadia.  The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture.  (Cambridge:Cambridge UP, 2007),  Journal of Victorian Culture 14 (2009): 155-59.

Review of Mighall, Robert, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), Nineteenth-Century Contexts 25.3 (2003).

Aviva Briefel also appeared on Bravo's Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.