nussbaum@humnet.ucla.edu

The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press 2003.

Editor, The Global Eighteenth Century, The Johns Hopkins University Press 2003.

Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narrative. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995.

The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1989. Co-recipient of Louis Gottschalk Prize. Paperback issued 1995.

Editor. The New Eighteenth Century: Theory/Politics/English Literature (with Laura Brown). New York and London: Methuen, 1987.

"The Brink of All We Hate": English Satires on Women, 1660-1750. Lexington: The Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1984.

"Actresses and the Economics of Celebrity, 1700-1800," ed. Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody, Celebrity and British Theatre, 1660-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan
Press, 2005).

"Women Writing the East after 1750: Revisiting a 'Feminine' Orient," Women's Writing in Britain,
1660-1830, ed. Jennie Bachelor and Cora Kaplan (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2005).

"Between 'Oriental' and 'Black So Called,' 1688-1788." The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theories, eds. Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa (Oxford University Press, forthcoming Jan 2008).

"Women and Race: A Difference of Complexion,’" In Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800. Ed. Vivien Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000: 69-88.

"Effeminacy and Femininity: Domestic Prose Satire and Fielding's David Simple," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11.4 (July 1999): 421-44.

"One Part of Womankind: Prostitution and Sexual Geography in Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure." differences, 7.2 (1995), 16-40.

"Gulliver’s Malice: Gender and the Satiric Stance." In Critical Approaches to Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Christopher Fox. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994, pp. 318-334.

"‘Savage’ Mothers: Narratives of Maternity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century." Cultural Critique, 20 (Winter 1991-92), 123-151. Reprinted in Eighteenth-Century Life, 8, 16 n.s.1 (February 1992), 163-184.

Editor. "The Politics of Difference." Special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies 23.4 (Summer 1990).

"Toward Conceptualizing Diary." In Studies in Autobiography. Ed. James Olney. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988, pp. 128-140.

Felicity Nussbaum joined the Department of English in 1996. She is a specialist in British literature (1660-1800), postcolonial and Anglophone studies, and gender studies. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, Prof. Nussbaum taught at Syracuse University and Indiana University, South Bend. Her genre interests range over the novel, the drama, and nonfiction prose. Her current projects include a book on the women, performance, and material practices in the eighteenth-century British theatre, and a collection of essays on The Arabian Nights in historical context.

She has been awarded numerous academic honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library, and an NEH Fellowship. She has also held a Marta Sutton Weeks Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center, and a Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence Fellow at the Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University. She has delivered keynote addresses at the David Nichol Smith conference in Melbourne, Australia, and in Dunedin, New Zealand, as well as at St. Hugh's College, Oxford University; the Conference on Women's Writing at the University of Southampton (UK); and the Society of Fellows at the Huntington Library. She is a Global Fellow at the Institute for Global Studies, UCLA, and President of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (2006-2007).

Professor Nussbaum is the author most recently of The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press 2003), and editor of The Global Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press 2003). In addition, she has published Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Narratives (Johns Hopkins University Press 1995); The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England (Johns Hopkins University Press), co-recipient of the Gottschalk Prize for the best book in its field for 1989; and The Brink of all We Hate: Satires on Women, 1660-1750 (University Press of Kentucky 1985). As co-editor of The New Eighteenth Century: Theory/Politics/English Literature (Routledge 1987) with Laura Brown, she was instrumental in integrating theoretical work into eighteenth-century studies. With Helen Deutsch she has edited Defects: Engendering the Modern Body, an anthology of essays in the Corporealities series from the University of Michigan Press (2000). Her most recent essays range from studies of blackness, slavery, and the Orient, to actresses' memoirs, celebrity, and theatrical property.

Professor Nussbaum teaches courses in eighteenth-century novel and drama, cultural studies, and autobiography. Among her recent graduate seminars are "Johnson, Boswell, and the Bluestockings," "Eighteenth-Century Women Novelists," "The Literature of Abolition and Empire, 1688-1820," and "The Oriental Tale."