Felicity Nussbaum
{{short description|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.{{cite web|url=https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/nussbaum-felicity/|title=Nussbaum, Felicity - Department of English UCLA|website=english.ucla.edu|accessdate=September 25, 2019}}
She earned B.A., magna cum laude from the Austin College and M.A. and Ph.D. from the Indiana University.
Books
- 2010: Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater {{cite web|url=https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1058|title=Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater | Reviews in History|website=reviews.history.ac.uk|accessdate=September 25, 2019}}
- 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".Review of The Global Eighteenth Century, Itinerario, vol. 29, issue 1, 2005, pp. 130-131, {{doi|10.1017/S0165115300021793}}
- 2000: “Defects”: Engendering the Modern Body
- 1995: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives Reviewed Work: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives by Felicity A. Nussbaum, {{JSTOR|464146}}, {{doi|10.2307/464146}}
- 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, {{JSTOR|3195168}}, {{doi|10.2307/3195168}}
- 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{{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/felicity-a-nussbaum/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Felicity A. Nussbaum|website=gf.org|accessdate=September 25, 2019}}
- 1989: Co-recipient of the Gottschalk Prize for the best book in its field for 1989 [https://english.yale.edu/news/department-news/felicity-nussbaum Felicity Nussbaum], a profile at Yale (retrieved September 25, 2019)
- Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library
- NEH Fellowship
References
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External links
- [http://asecsgradcaucus.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/interview-with-professor-felicity-nussbaum/ "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,
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