Dr. Veronica Alfano

Biography

Veronica Alfano is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at Macquarie University. She specializes in Victorian poetry and poetics, focusing on topics such as lyric theory, gender, sexuality, memory, and media studies. Alfano’s academic work includes her doctoral studies at Princeton University, and she has actively published essays in various reputable journals including Victorian Poetry and the Journal Pre-Raphaelite Studies. Her monograph, The Lyric in Victorian Memory, examines the relationship between mnemonic forms and cultural nostalgia in Victorian lyric verse. This work argues that lyric poetry reflects the Victorian era's preoccupation with the themes of mourning and memorialization. In addition to her scholarly contributions, Alfano has received accolades, such as the Donald Gray Essay Prize from the North American Victorian Studies Association and has led significant initiatives within the NAVSA Poetry Caucus. She is involved in a range of ongoing projects aimed at exploring Victorian literature through contemporary relevance, such as her forthcoming monograph on neologisms in the works of Thomas Hardy and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and a multi-volume compendium centered on primary sources from the long nineteenth century.

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