Faculty Profile for Dr. Denae Dyck

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Dr. Denae Dyck
Assistant Professor — English
Assistant Professor — English
phone: (512) 245-3822
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Dr. Denae Dyck holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Victoria, an M.A from Dalhousie University, and a B.A. from Ambrose University. Her publications include articles in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Review, European Romantic Review, ARIEL, and Christianity and Literature. She is currently at work on her first book, Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination, under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. This book considers how the challenges and interpretive potentials introduced by the advent of modern biblical criticism generated a creative recovery of wisdom literature. Her ongoing research focuses on late nineteenth-century women writers, alternative spiritualities, and periodical press networks.

Teaching Interests

 Nineteenth-century British literature (Victorian and Romantic); women writers and gender studies; literature and religion/spirituality; poetry and poetics; material culture

Research Interests

 Nineteenth-century British literature (Victorian and Romantic); women writers and gender studies; literature and religion/spirituality; poetry and poetics

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Dyck, D. (n.d.). “The Flood Narrative in Feminist Perspectives.” In The Routledge Handbook of the Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry (edited by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
  • Dyck, D. (2020). “From Denunciation to Dialogue: Redefining Prophetic Authority in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘A Curse for a Nation.’” Victorian Review, 46, 27–51. https://doi.org/doi:10.1353/vcr.2020.0011.
  • Dyck, D. (2020). “Falling into Hope: Wisdom Poetry and the Reinterpretation of Suffering in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s A Drama of Exile.” Victorian Poetry, 58(1), 27–51. https://doi.org/doi:10.1353/vp.2020.0001
  • Dyck, D. (2018). “Gathering and Scattering in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’: Poetic Form, Biblical Criticism, and Coleridge’s Tropes of the Imagination.” European Romantic Review, 29, 67–82. https://doi.org/doi:10.1080/10509585.2018.1534688.
  • Dyck, D., & Stone, M. (2017). “The ‘sensation’ of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems before Congress (1860): Events, Politics, Reception.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History (Edited by Dino Franco Felluga). Retrieved from https://branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=denae-dyck-and-marjorie-stone-the-sensation-of-elizabeth-barrett-brownings-poems-before-congress-1860-events-politics-reception

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Governor General's Gold Medal, University of Victoria. 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Founders' Circle Award, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. May 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Izaak Walton Killam Predoctoral Scholarship (Honorary), Dalhousie University. September 2014 - April 2015
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Founders' Circle Award, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. 2017
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Founders' Circle Award, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. April 2016

Selected Grants

  • Dyck, Denae. "Forming Wisdom: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'A Drama of Exile.'", Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Institutional (Higher Ed), $5500. (Submitted: November 2017, Funded: September 2018 - August 2019). Grant.
  • Dyck, Denae. "Archival Research on Elizabeth Barrett Browning.", Visiting Scholars Research Program, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $1000. (Submitted: November 2017, Funded: March 2018 - April 2018). Grant.
  • Dyck, Denae. "Refiguring the Sage: The Pluralist Visions of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot.", Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship (Doctoral), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Federal, $105000. (Funded: September 2015 - August 2018). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
MA Literature Administrative Support Committee
September 2022-Present
Member
Advanced Studies Curriculum Committee
September 2022-Present
Member
Advisory Board, North American Victorian Studies Association
January 2022-Present
Member
Executive Council, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
September 2021-Present
Member
Steering Team, Religion and Spiritualities Caucus, North American Victorian Studies Association
September 2018-Present