Felicity A. Nussbaum (born 1944) is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the

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. Her research interests include 18th-century literature and culture, critical theory,

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and postcolonial and Anglophone studies. In the past she taught at

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and

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. She earned B.A., ''

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'' from the

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Books

*2010: Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater *2008: (co-ed. with

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) 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". *2000: “Defects”: Engendering the Modern Body *1995: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives *1989: The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England *1987: (co-ed. with Laura Brown) The New Eighteenth Century: Theory/Politics/English LiteratureReviewed Work: The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature by Felicity Nussbaum, Laura Brown, , *1984: “The Brink of All We Hate”: English Satires on Women, 1660–1750 *1976: (ed.) Three Seventeenth-Century Satires

Honors

Her academic honors include: *1991: Fellow of the

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*1989: Co-recipient of the

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for the best book in its field for 1989 Felicity Nussbaum
a profile at Yale (retrieved September 25, 2019) *Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the

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Fellowship

References

External links

"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, 1944 births Living people University of California, Los Angeles faculty Syracuse University faculty Indiana University faculty Indiana University alumni Austin College alumni American academics of English literature Gender studies academics American literary critics Women literary critics American women critics {{US-English-academic-bio-stub