Profile

I am a professor of English specializing in Victorian literature and culture, and I also teach courses on the Bible as literature, myth and literature, mystery and crime fiction, and related subjects.
My office is located in 466 Dickson Hall. Please contact me for an appointment in person or on Zoom at behlmanl@montclair.edu.

Specialization

Victorian poetry and popular culture; nineteenth-century classicism; motherhood and gender studies; the Bible as literature. Recent publications include _Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life_ (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2023), with Olivia Loksing Moy; "The Case of Light Verse, or Vers de Societe," in _Victorian Poetry_ (Winter 2019); _Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates_ (Routledge, 2016), with Anne Longmuir; and “The Victorian Marcus Aurelius: Mill, Arnold, and the Appeal of the Quasi-Christian," The Journal of Victorian Culture 16.1 (April 2011).

Office Hours

Fall

Tuesday

11:15 am - 1:00 pm

Wednesday

10:30 am - 1:00 pm

Friday

11:15 am - 1:00 pm