Felicity
A. Nussbaum, Professor
B.A.,
magna cum laude, Austin College, 1965; M.A., Indiana University,
1967; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1970.
Interests:
18th-Century Literature and Culture; Critical
Theory; Gender Studies; Postcolonial and Anglophone Studies; Non-Fiction
Prose.
Selected
Works: The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race
and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century (2003); ed. The
Global Eighteenth Century (2003);“Defects”: Engendering
the Modern Body (2000); Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality
and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives (1995);
The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century
England (1989); co-ed. The New Eighteenth Century: Theory/Politics/English
Literature (1987); “The Brink of All We Hate”:
English Satires on Women,1660-1750 (1984); ed., Three Seventeenth-Century
Satires (1976).
Additional
Information:
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 include 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.
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), and editor of The Global Eighteenth
Century (Johns Hopkins University Press). In addition, she has
published Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century
Narratives (Johns Hopkins University Press); 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).
As co-editor of The New Eighteenth Century: Theory/Politics/English
Literature (Methuen) 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.
Her most recent essays range from studies of blackness, slavery,
and the Orient, to actresses' memoirs, theatrical property, and
celebrity.
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."
For
additional information, please visit:
http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/nussbaum/default.htm
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