About
copyright Margrit Olsen
Victoria Olsen is the author of From Life: Julia Margaret Cameron and Victorian Photography (Palgrave, 2003). She earned a Ph.D. in English literature at Stanford University with a specialization in Victorian women’s studies. She has co-edited an anthology of personal essays about the academic job market (Riverhead, 1998) and written two junior-high-school textbooks for Chelsea House Press. Her work has been published in Smithsonian Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Salon.com. She lives in Brooklyn with her family and teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University.
Courses
Art in the World: Writing Through Art, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Writing the Essay, New York University
Writing Tutorial, New York University
Writing in the Disciplines, New York University
Faculty Mentor to peer tutors in the Undergraduate Writing Tutor Program, New York University
Writing Consultant to senior honors psychology seminar, Lab in Human Cognition, and Lab in Clinical Research
“From Little Women to Mean Girls,” Barnard Pre-College Program
First-Year English: Women and Culture, Barnard College
Member
Women Writing Women’s Lives seminar, CUNY
Biographers International Organization
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