Staff Profile

I joined Newcastle University as a Lecturer in Victorian Literature in 2018. My scholarship on the nineteenth and early-twentieth century focuses on Great Britain and India, and is situated at the intersection of age studies, postcolonial theory, and the philosophy of time.

I am currently serving as the Degree Program Director for the MA in English Literature.

Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, English Literature, July 2012. 

M.A. State University of New York at Buffalo, English Literature, May 2008. 

B.A. Texas Christian University, English Literature, June 2005. 

B.A. Texas Christian University, Philosophy, June 2005.

My first book, Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf, was published by Cambridge University Press in January 2020. It theorizes duration and the conventions of realism through an analysis of representations of old age and aging, especially through the way novelists plot the development of characters over time.

I am currently working on a second book, The Aging of Empire: Networks of Dependence from Young England to Young India, which focuses on how British and Indian authors mapped a politics of age onto the asymmetrical relation between colonizer and colonized. This project demonstrates how progressive, linear models of imperial expansion derived their power from a tacit comparison to the development of a human life, entangling anxieties about the durability of empire with figures relating to old age and youthful inheritance.

Awards

Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2016.

Donald Gray Prize, Best Essay in Victorian Studies, 2013.

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching 2021-22

Semester One:

SEL 3395: The Victorian Novel: Time, Change, and the Life Course 

SEL 8674: Research Methods I

Semester Two:

SEL 2204: Victorian Passions, Victorian Values

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• Articles

  • Jewusiak J. Tennyson's Wrinkled Feet: Ageing and the Poetics of Decay. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 2021, 32.
  • Jewusiak J. Thomas Hardy’s Impulse: Context and the Counterfactual Imagination. Textual Practice 2020, 34(3), 461-478.
  • Jewusiak J. Retirement in Utopia: William Morris’s Senescent Socialism. ELH 2019, 86(1), 245-266.
  • Jewusiak J. Temporality. Victorian Literature and Culture 2018, 46(3-4), 909-913.
  • Jewusiak J. Suspenseful Speculation and the Pleasure of Waiting in Little Dorrit. Victorian Literature and Culture 2016, 44(2), 279-296.
  • Jewusiak J. Large-Scale Sympathy and Simultaneity in George Eliot’s Romola. Studies in English Literature 2014, 54(4), 853-874.
  • Jewusiak J. No Plots for Old Men. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 2013, 46(2), 193-213.
  • Jewusiak J. The End of the Novel: Gender and Temporality in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 2011, 7(3), n. pag.

• Authored Book

  • Jewusiak J. Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

• Book Chapter

  • Jewusiak J. Grandpaternalism: Kipling's Imperial Care Narrative. In: Barry E; Skagen MV, ed. Literature and Ageing. Martlesham, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2020, pp.87-104.