Amit, Oriah
19th-Century Literature
Kaplan 149
Tel: 310.825.4173 / Fax: 310.267.4339 / E-mail
Education
M.A., UCLA, 2019
B.A., USC, 2013
Publications
“Passed by Unnoticed: Surveillance and the Street Urchin in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone,” in A Study in Sidekicks, ed. Lucy Andrew and Samuel Saunders. Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).
“Jack the Ripper,” in Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction, ed. Kevin Morrison. McFarland Press, 2018.
Historical Consulting
The Nevers (HBO), 2019 – Present.
Research Interests
Mid- to late-Victorian literature; crime and detective fiction; popular literature; newspaper and print culture.
Interest Areas
• British Literature & Culture, 19th C. – Present