Dr. Paul Fyfe

Paul Fyfe, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2009), specializes in Victorian literature and culture. His current research investigates the material and textual practices by which the Victorians conceptualized the metropolis, particularly through the reevaluation of chance and accidents. This project binds studies of print and material culture to an epistemological history and includes a range of Victorian cultural productions including literary sketches, novels, broadsides and ballads, penny magazines, illustrated newspapers, insurance reports, and assorted ephemera. Dr. Fyfe is currently working on articles related to the industrial novel, notions of Victorian ephemera, and representations of railway disasters.

The nineteenth-century's proliferation of print also impels Dr. Fyfe's interest in the related questions of electronic texts: what is preserved and how transformed, related, retrieved. Having served as project manager for Jerome McGann's /Rossetti Archive/ and as a graduate fellow for the NINES initiative, Dr. Fyfe is working with FSU Library's Special Collections and Digital Services on opportunities for electronic archives, and further researching the development of search and text analysis tools. He established the "Digital Scholars" reading group to explore issues in the digital humanities with constituents from across the university.

Dr. Fyfe teaches on nineteenth-century print culture, special topics in Victorian literature, and introduction to digital humanities. Please see the course descriptions page for more information about specific courses.