Robert Higney
Associate Professor
Deputy Chair / Director, Isaacs Scholarships and English Honors Program
(he/him)
Areas of Expertise/Research
- 20th Century British Literature and Culture
- Contemporary Fiction
Building
North Academic Center
Office
6/223
Phone
212-650-8475
Website
Robert Higney
Education
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 2014
MA, Johns Hopkins University, 2008
BA, Boston College, 2004
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
ENGL 49260: The Novel Now
ENGL 49016: Global Modernisms
ENGL 36503: Energy, Infrastructure, and the Worlds of Modern Literature
ENGL 35800: Representative British Writers: Modern Period
ENGL 26102: Introduction to Genre: The Novel
ENGL 25000: Introduction to Literary Study
Graduate:
ENGL B1957: The Novel Now: Contemporary Fiction
ENGL B1968: The Historical Novel After Modernism
ENGL B1720: The Twentieth-Century British Novel
Research Interests
Robert Higney teaches twentieth-century British and Anglophone writing, global modernism, contemporary fiction, and the history of the novel. His research interests are in questions of character and narrative form, institutions and infrastructure, and how literary forms migrate into historical, biographical, and theoretical writing.
Publications
Book
Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022)
Essays, Reviews, and Other Writing
Review of British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States, by Benjamin Kohlmann, Studies in the Novel 55.2 (2023): 242-244
Review of Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life, by Patricia Laurence, American Book Review 43.3 (Fall 2022): 126-130
"Where the Network Ends," in "The Character of Literary Criticism," eds. Octavio González and Lisa Mendelman, ASAP/J (September 2021)
“Institutional Picaresque,” in “Modernist Institutions,” eds. Meghan Faragher and Caroline Krzakowski, Modernism/modernity Print+ 5.2 (November 2020)
"Scholarship, Inc.," The AnaChronisT 19 (2019): 159-165
"Institutions, Genres, Readers," Contemporary Literature 60.2 (Summer 2019): 289-299
Review of Figures of Catastrophe: The Condition of Culture Novel, by Francis Mulhern, Modernism/modernity 24.2 (April 2017): 412-414
“‘Law, Good Faith, Order, Security’: Joseph Conrad’s Institutions,” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 48.1 (Spring 2015): 85-102
"Virginia Woolf's The Years," Yale Modernism Lab
"Virginia Woolf's The Pargiters," Yale Modernism Lab