English Department Faculty

Aeron Hunt

Associate Professor

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Aeron Hunt

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall S451

Telephone: 617-552-8273

Email: aeron.hunt@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., University of Toronto
  • Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research Interests

Victorian Literature and Culture; Literature and Economic Life; The Novel; Victorian Popular and Mass Culture; Gender and Sexuality

Department

English

Publications

  • 淢ilitary Relics: Soldiers and Sailors at Home in Thomas Hardy聽The Trumpet-Major.澛�Journal of Victorian Culture聽24.4 (Oct. 2019): 521�34.
  • 淥rdinary Claims:聽War, Work, Service and the Victorian Veteran.�聽Victorian Studies聽61.3 (Spring 2019): 395�418.
  • 淏orn to the Business: Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain.� In聽Abstracting Economics: Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp (Ohio University Press, 2016).
  • Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture聽(University of Virginia Press, 2014)
  • 淎ccidental Pregnancy.� Special Issue: Victorians and Risk. Victorian Review 40.2 (Fall 2014).
  • 淭he Authoritative Medium: George Eliot, Ruin, and the Rationalized Market.� Journal of Victorian Culture 17.2 (June 2012): 164�82.聽
  • 淥pen Accounts: Harriet Martineau and the Problem of Privacy in Early Victorian Culture.� Nineteenth-Century Literature. 62, no. 1 (June 2007): 1-28.
  • 淐alculations and Concealments: Infanticide in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain.� Victorian Literature and Culture 34, no. 1 (Mar. 2006): 71�94.

Awards

Personal Business聽named a聽Choice聽Outstanding Academic Title for 2015.

Honorable Mention for Best Book of the Year award for聽Personal Business:聽Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture, North American Victorian Studies Association, 2014.

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