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American academic
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 .
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She earned B.A.,
magna cum laude from the
Austin College and M.A. and Ph.D. from the
Indiana University .
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Books
2010: Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
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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".
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2000: “Defects”: Engendering the Modern Body
1995: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives
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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:
References
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"Nussbaum, Felicity - Department of English UCLA" . english.ucla.edu . Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
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"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
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"John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Felicity A. Nussbaum" . gf.org . Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
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Felicity Nussbaum , a profile at Yale (retrieved September 25, 2019)
External links
International National Academics Other