Nicolle Jordan
Professor
Bio
Nicolle Jordan is an Associate Professor of British Literature. She teaches and writes about British literature and culture of the long eighteenth-century, with emphasis on landscape and women’s writing. She has published articles on Anne Finch, Jane Barker, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Elizabeth Montagu, Sarah Scott, and Maria Graham. Her manuscript-in-progress is entitled “Prolific Ground: Landscape in British Women’s Writing, 1690-1780.”
- 18th-Century British Women Writers, Literature and Landscape (PHD) - Brown University (2002)
- MA - Brown University (1999)
- BA - Wesleyan University (1992)
Gardens and Landscapes in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
British Literatures of the Environment (co-taught with Dr. Damon Franke)
Women’s Literary History
World Literature: Marriage, the Primal Union: From the Old Testament to the New Normal
Literary Analysis
- Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790 [book], 2025
- "Maria Graham’s Tropical Landscaping of Brazilian Independence" , eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics, 2022, https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022
- “‘Those Stately Palaces’: Tribute and Estates in the Work of Anne Finch and Jane Barker” , The Circuit of Apollo: Eighteenth-Century Women’s Tributes to Women, 2019
- “Maria Graham’s Chilean Landscape of Independence.” , XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, 2019
- “Anne Finch and the Fallen Country House.” , The Intellectual Culture of the British Country House. Eds. Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield, and Margaret Healy , 2015
- “‘I Writ These Lines on the Body of the Tree’: Jane Barker’s Arboreal Poetics.”, Invaluable trees: cultures of nature, 1660-1830. Eds. Laura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, and Giulia Pacini , 2012
- “Gentlemen and Gentle Women: The Landscape Ethos in Millenium Hall.” , Eighteenth-Century Fiction , 2011, 10.3138/ecf.24.1.31
- “A Creole Contagion: Narratives of Slavery and Tainted Wealth in Millenium Hall.” , Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature , 2011
- “From Pastoral to Georgic: Modes of Negotiating Social Mobility in Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence.” , Eighteenth-Century Women , 2011
- “Eastern Pastoral: ‘Female Fears’ and ‘Savage Foes’ in Montagu’s ‘Constantinople.’” , Modern Philology, 2010
- French (Limited Working)