Felicity A. Nussbaum (born 1944) is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include 18th-century literature and culture, critical theory, gender studies and postcolonial and Anglophone studies. In the past she taught at Syracuse University and Indiana University South Bend.[1]
She earned B.A., magna cum laude from the Austin College and M.A. and Ph.D. from the Indiana University.[1]
Books
edit- 2010: Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater [2]
- 2008: (co-ed. with Saree Makdisi) The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West
- 2003: The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century
- 2003: (ed.) The Global Eighteenth Century
- The 21 essays of the book are "contributions to the new field of 'critical global studies' of the long eighteenth century".[3]
- 2000: “Defects”: Engendering the Modern Body
- 1995: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives [4]
- 1989: The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England
- 1987: (co-ed. with Laura Brown) The New Eighteenth Century: Theory/Politics/English Literature[5]
- 1984: “The Brink of All We Hate”: English Satires on Women, 1660–1750
- 1976: (ed.) Three Seventeenth-Century Satires
Honors
editHer academic honors include:
- 1991: Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[6]
- 1989: Co-recipient of the Gottschalk Prize for the best book in its field for 1989 [7]
- Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library[7]
- NEH Fellowship[7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Nussbaum, Felicity - Department of English UCLA". english.ucla.edu. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^ "Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater | Reviews in History". reviews.history.ac.uk. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^ Review of The Global Eighteenth Century, Itinerario, vol. 29, issue 1, 2005, pp. 130-131, doi:10.1017/S0165115300021793
- ^ Reviewed Work: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives by Felicity A. Nussbaum, JSTOR 464146, doi:10.2307/464146
- ^ Reviewed Work: The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature by Felicity Nussbaum, Laura Brown, JSTOR 3195168, doi:10.2307/3195168
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Felicity A. Nussbaum". gf.org. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^ a b c Felicity Nussbaum, a profile at Yale (retrieved September 25, 2019)
External links
edit- "Interview with Professor Felicity Nussbaum" by Michael Nicholson, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities Institute, October 31, 2016,
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