Professor
Audrey Jaffe
- Courses3
- Reviews13
- School: University of Toronto
- Campus: St. George Campus
- Department: English
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Location:
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 910
Toronto, ON - Dates at University of Toronto: April 2010 - June 2020
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Professor Jaffe was one of the standoffish teacher I've ever encountered. This character made her unapproachable, especially when it comes on one to one. Most of the time, I got the feeling that she was just sort of making time. Until, she can do something that she really wants and was not at all that interested in being there. Overall, I would say that, take the class with other professor.
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Would take again: No
For Credit: Yes
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Mandatory
Awful
Professor Jaffe has a frigid personality, grades incredibly hard, and gives unhelpful feedback.
Biography
University of Toronto St. George Campus - English
Degrees
B.A., Swarthmore College
PhD, U.C. Berkeley
Professor Jaffe’s research and teaching focus on the Victorian novel. Her most recent book, The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real: Conventions and Ideology (2016), argues for the real as an object of desire—and hence fantastical construction—in Victorian fiction. Scenes of Sympathy (2000) reconceived Victorian sympathy as an imagined exchange of identities. She has also written about the relation between the stock market, Victorian finance, and the measurement of emotion (The Affective Life of the Average Man;2010) and the idea of omniscience in Dickens (Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience; 1991). Her essay on affect and the Victorian novel is forthcoming in The Palgrave Handbook of Affect and Textual Studies, and she is currently writing about the relation between sociology and the Victorian novel and on the “class” idea in Victorian fiction and culture. Professor Jaffe regularly teaches English 324--a year-long undergraduate course on British fiction—as well as a variety of courses and seminars on such topics as Victorian realism; Victorian character; affect and the novel; the novel and everyday life; sociology and the novel, and the construction of space and place in Victorian realist fiction.
