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
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and
Indiana University South Bend.
She earned B.A., ''
magna cum laude
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'' 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
*2008: (co-ed. with Saree Makdisi
Saree Makdisi (born 1964) is an American literary critic and professor; specializing in eighteenth and nineteenth century British literature. He is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent. He also writes on contemporary Arab politics and culture. M ...
) 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 Literature[Reviewed 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 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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*1989: Co-recipient of the Gottschalk Prize
The Gottschalk Prize is awarded for an outstanding historical or critical study on the 18th century and carries a prize of US$1,000. It is named in honour of Louis Gottschalk (1899–1975), second President of the American Society for Eighteenth-C ...
for the best book in its field for 1989 [Felicity Nussbaum]
a profile at Yale (retrieved September 25, 2019)
*Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library[
*]NEH
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Fellowship[
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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
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