The Koerner Center is pleased to announce that Koerner Fellow Janice Carlisle, Professor Emeritus of English, was one of two recipients to receive this year’s William Clyde DeVane Award. Presented on April 16 by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the award honors faculty who are leading figures in their fields and esteemed teachers of Yale College undergraduates.
Celebrating her many contributions to Yale, Professor Carlisle was commended for her excellence in teaching Victorian English works, her dedication to decreasing social inequality, and her commitment to teaching those who were, prior to coming to Yale, underserved by higher education. During her tenure, she played a critical role in the development of First-Year Scholars at Yale, a summer program for incoming students in need of additional academic support.
Janice Carlisle has published books and essays on Victorian fiction, visual culture, and autobiography, including an analysis of the presentation of character in the writings of John Stuart Mill (Georgia paperback 2010); a study of novels of the 1860s, Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction, (Oxford 2004); and Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain, a book on art and politics from the 1830s to the 1860s, which treats the wood engravings of illustrated journalism in their relation to both Victorian painting and extensions of the franchise (Cambridge 2012; paperback 2013). She is currently working on a book-length study tentatively called “Ford Madox Brown and the Politics of Work.” In it she is applying her conception of a comparative encounter, a meeting between individuals differentiated by the cultural values associated with them, to both the street politics that Brown depicts in his epic painting and his humorous representations of institutional politics.
To read more about Professor Carlisle’s honor and contributions to Yale, please see Yale News.