Rachel Hollander

Rachel Hollander is an Associate Professor of English and director of the Honors Program on the Staten Island campus. Research and teaching interests include Victorian and Modernist literature, the novel, postcolonialism, and theories of ethics/hospitality, gender, and sexuality. Her first book, Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction: Novel Ethics (Routledge 2013), examined the shift from an ethics of sympathy to narrative hospitality in novels by George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, and Thomas Hardy. She has recently published articles on Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, and Olive Schreiner and is currently working on late Victorian Jewish author Amy Levy.