Nicolle Jordan
Associate Professor
Bio
Nicolle Jordan is an Associate Professor of British Literature. She teaches and writes about British literature and culture of the long eighteenth-century, with emphasis on landscape and womenās writing. She has published articles on Anne Finch, Jane Barker, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Elizabeth Montagu, Sarah Scott, and Maria Graham. Her manuscript-in-progress is entitled āProlific Ground: Landscape in British Womenās Writing, 1690-1780.ā
- 18th-Century British Women Writers, Literature and Landscape (PHD) - Brown University (2002)
- MA - Brown University (1999)
- BA - Wesleyan University (1992)
Gardens and Landscapes in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
British Literatures of the Environment (co-taught with Dr. Damon Franke)
Womenās Literary History
World Literature: Marriage, the Primal Union: From the Old Testament to the New Normal
Literary Analysis
- Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790 [book], 2025
- "Maria Grahamās Tropical Landscaping of Brazilian Independence" , eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics, 2022,
- āāThose Stately Palacesā: Tribute and Estates in the Work of Anne Finch and Jane Barkerā , The Circuit of Apollo: Eighteenth-Century Womenās Tributes to Women, 2019
- āMaria Grahamās Chilean Landscape of Independence.ā , XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, 2019
- āAnne Finch and the Fallen Country House.ā , The Intellectual Culture of the British Country House. Eds. Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield, and Margaret Healy , 2015
- āāI Writ These Lines on the Body of the Treeā: Jane Barkerās Arboreal Poetics.ā, Invaluable trees: cultures of nature, 1660-1830. Eds. Laura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, and Giulia Pacini , 2012
- āGentlemen and Gentle Women: The Landscape Ethos in Millenium Hall.ā , Eighteenth-Century Fiction , 2011
- āA Creole Contagion: Narratives of Slavery and Tainted Wealth in Millenium Hall.ā , Tulsa Studies in Womenās Literature , 2011
- āFrom Pastoral to Georgic: Modes of Negotiating Social Mobility in Elizabeth Montaguās Correspondence.ā , Eighteenth-Century Women , 2010
- āEastern Pastoral: āFemale Fearsā and āSavage Foesā in Montaguās āConstantinople.āā , Modern Philology, 2010
- French (Limited Working)