Christoper Herbert
English

Christopher Herbert, the Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor of English, holds a long-ago C.E.S. in French literature from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, where he studied for two wonderful years. A Victorianist, he is the author of Trollope and Comic Pleasure (1987), Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century (1991), and Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery (2001), all published by the University of Chicago Press, and of articles on a variety of nineteenth-century topics. Currently he is at work on a study of the literature of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. He is a former chair of the Department of English and a former Associate Dean of the College.

c-herbert@northwestern.edu