What I Did at Vassar Stayed with Me”
Victorian Studies and Activism, a Case Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lydia Murdoch (0009-0004-4814-1870, Vassar College, corresponding author), Susan Zlotnick (0009-0007-2179-2640, Vassar College) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 645-659 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s106015032300061x |
| OpenAlex | W4390879515 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Vassar College was one of the few North American undergraduate institutions to offer a concentration in Victorian studies. From 1970 until 2021, when the program transformed into Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, nearly ninety majors and minors passed through the program. Drawing on surveys and interviews with the program's graduates, the essay contends that Vassar's Victorian studies program engendered certain mental habits as well as specific approaches to activism, which the essay broadly defines to include activist scholarship and journalism, working for change within institutions, and reimagining family life and child-rearing. The Vassar alums who participated in the surveys and interviews made direct links between their activist commitments and an undergraduate education that emphasized primary-source research as well as multidisciplinarity
Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |