Tina Young Choi specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, with a particular interest in the intersections between scientific and literary narrative.

Her published work includes two monographs, Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play (Stanford University Press, 2021) and Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain (University of Michigan Press, 2015), as well as articles on a range of interdisciplinary subjects, such as nineteenth-century medicine, statistics, thermodynamics, and print culture. Her course offerings also focus on the nineteenth century; they include an undergraduate survey of nineteenth-century British literature and culture, an honours seminar on the Victorian city, and graduate seminars on Victorian sexuality, the historical novel from Scott to Eliot, and the literary culture of the 1840s.

Her current research investigates the culture of mass-market maps -- travel and tourist maps, children's games and puzzles, and educational works -- and forms of cartographic literacy in nineteenth-century Britain. This project is supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant (2020 to 2025).

She is a member of the Graduate Faculty in Science and Technology Studies at York University. In 2019 she was the George Whalley Visiting Professor in the English Department at Queen's University.

Research Interests

• SSHRC Insight Grant - 2020

Tina Young Choi specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, with a particular interest in the intersections between scientific and literary narrative.

Her published work includes two monographs, Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play (Stanford University Press, 2021) and Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain (University of Michigan Press, 2015), as well as articles on a range of interdisciplinary subjects, such as nineteenth-century medicine, statistics, thermodynamics, and print culture. Her course offerings also focus on the nineteenth century; they include an undergraduate survey of nineteenth-century British literature and culture, an honours seminar on the Victorian city, and graduate seminars on Victorian sexuality, the historical novel from Scott to Eliot, and the literary culture of the 1840s.

Her current research investigates the culture of mass-market maps -- travel and tourist maps, children's games and puzzles, and educational works -- and forms of cartographic literacy in nineteenth-century Britain. This project is supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant (2020 to 2025).

She is a member of the Graduate Faculty in Science and Technology Studies at York University. In 2019 she was the George Whalley Visiting Professor in the English Department at Queen's University.

Degrees

Professional Leadership

Editorial Board, Victorian Review, 2024 to present; Advisory Board (2019-2023)
Advisory Board, North American Victorian Studies Association (2019-21)
President, Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (2015-17)
Member of the Executive, Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (2013-15, 2017-19)

Community Contributions

DEPARTMENT of ENGLISH, YORK UNIVERSITY:
Department Chair (2020-23); Curriculum Committee Chair (2024-25)

GRADUATE PROGRAM in ENGLISH, YORK UNIVERSITY:
Professionalization Workshop Program Coordinator (2008-11; 2013-15);
Graduate Scholarships and Prizes Committee (2006-2009, 2012-18, 2019-25).

EXTRADEPARTMENTAL: Steering Committee, Victorian Studies Network at York (2008-present)

Research Interests

Awards

• SSHRC Insight Grant - 2020