Felicity Nussbaum

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
  • 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

Her academic honors include:

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References
  1. "Nussbaum, Felicity - Department of English UCLA". english.ucla.edu. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  2. "Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater | Reviews in History". reviews.history.ac.uk. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  3. Review of The Global Eighteenth Century, Itinerario, vol. 29, issue 1, 2005, pp. 130-131, doi:10.1017/S0165115300021793
  4. Reviewed Work: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives by Felicity A. Nussbaum, JSTOR 464146, doi:10.2307/464146
  5. Reviewed Work: The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature by Felicity Nussbaum, Laura Brown, JSTOR 3195168, doi:10.2307/3195168
  6. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Felicity A. Nussbaum". gf.org. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  7. Felicity Nussbaum, a profile at Yale (retrieved September 25, 2019)


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