Shirley Samuels
{{short description|American academic}}
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| workplaces = Cornell University; University of Delaware
| education = University of California, Berkeley: B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
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| doctoral_advisor = Eric Sundquist
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| awards = American Antiquarian Society Fellow; Modern Language Association Northeast Division Fellow; American Council of Learned Societies Fellow; Society for the Humanities Fellow; Library Company of Philadelphia Fellow; Huntington Library Distinguished Fellow; Center for Mark Twain Studies Quarry Farm Fellow
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Shirley Samuels is an American academic. She is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies. Currently Picket Family Chair of the Literatures in English Department, she was formerly director of American Studies at Cornell University and is known for her work on American literature and culture.
Education and career
Samuels has a B.A. (1977), M.A. (1981), and Ph.D. (1986) from the University of California, Berkeley. Following her Ph.D. she was an assistant professor at Princeton University. She moved to Cornell University in 1986 and was promoted to full professor in 1998. From 2000 until 2001 she was the Fletcher Brown Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.{{Cite web |title=Shirley Samuels {{!}} Literatures in English |url=https://english.cornell.edu/shirley-samuels |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=english.cornell.edu}} From 2009 until 2015, she chaired the History of Art Department, and from 2009 until 2012 she was dean of the Flora Rose House on the Cornell University campus.{{Cite news |last=Ge |first=Eva |date=2009-01-26 |title=Professor named dean of Flora Rose House |pages=6 |work=The Ithaca Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112205564/professor-named-dean-of-flora-rose-house/ |access-date=2022-10-29}}
Samuels' work includes visual studies where she focuses on challenges with photographic representation of the American Civil War.{{Cite news |last=House |first=Samantha |date=2013-04-07 |title=Capturing history |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112205430/capturing-history/],[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112205483/] |work=The Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112205430/capturing-history/ |access-date=2022-10-29}}
Awards and honors
Samuels was a fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) division.{{Cite web |title=fellows {{!}} American Antiquarian Society |url=https://www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowlists |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=www.americanantiquarian.org}} She has also had fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Society for the Humanities, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. In 2015-2016, she was the Los Angeles Times distinguished fellow at the Huntington Library. In 2020 she was named a Quarry Farm Fellow by the Center For Mark Twain Studies.{{Cite web |date=2020-01-13 |title=2020 Quarry Farm Fellows |url=https://marktwainstudies.com/2020-quarry-farm-fellows/ |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=Center for Mark Twain Studies |language=en-US}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite book |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-abraham-lincoln/46B3D08B5AABACCFDBE86F237B2F631F |title=The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-19316-0 |editor-last=Samuels |editor-first=Shirley |series=Cambridge Companions to American Studies |location=Cambridge |doi=10.1017/ccol9780521193160}}Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln
- {{Cite journal |last=Gannon |first=Kevin |date=2013 |title=Review of The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44308818 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=100 |issue=3 |pages=838–839 |issn=0021-8723}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Towns |first=W. Stuart |date=2014 |title=Review of The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln. Cambridge Companions to American Studies |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23796900 |journal=The Journal of Southern History |volume=80 |issue=1 |pages=193–194 |issn=0022-4642}}
- {{Cite book |last=Samuels |first=Shirley |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57365391 |title=Facing America : iconography and the Civil War |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-535169-9 |location=New York |oclc=57365391}}Reviews for Facing America:
- {{Cite journal |last=Bergland |first=Renée |date=2007 |title=Review of Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/588116 |journal=Modern Philology |volume=105 |issue=2 |pages=389–392 |doi=10.1086/588116 |issn=0026-8232|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Ronda |first=Bruce A. |date=2007 |title=Review of Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25094654 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=93 |issue=4 |pages=1238–1239 |doi=10.2307/25094654 |issn=0021-8723|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite book |last=Samuels |first=Shirley |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/437213904 |title=A Companion to American Fiction 1780-1865. |date=2007 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-470-99920-2 |location=Chichester |oclc=437213904}}
- {{Cite book |last=Samuels |first=Shirley |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65222754 |title=Romances of the republic : women, the family, and violence in the literature of the early American nation |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=1-4237-6490-0 |location=New York |oclc=65222754}}Reviews for Romances of the Republic
- {{Cite journal |last=Fichtelberg |first=Joseph |date=1997 |title=Review of Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2928349 |journal=American Literature |volume=69 |issue=4 |pages=847–848 |doi=10.2307/2928349 |issn=0002-9831|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Kamrath |first=Mark L. |date=1997 |title=Review of Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25057097 |journal=Early American Literature |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=270–272 |issn=0012-8163}}
- {{Cite book |last=Samuels |first=Shirley |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65208925 |title=The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America |date=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press |others= |isbn=1-4237-6428-5 |location=New York |oclc=65208925}}Reviews for The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th Century America
- {{Cite journal |last=Matthews |first=Jean V. |date=1993 |editor-last=Samuels |editor-first=Shirley |editor2-last=Clinton |editor2-first=Catherine |editor3-last=Silber |editor3-first=Nina |title=Factoring in Race and Gender: New Facets of Culture, New Aspects of War |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2703399 |journal=Reviews in American History |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=600–605 |doi=10.2307/2703399 |issn=0048-7511|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Kar |first=Prafulla C. |date=1994 |title=Review of The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th Century America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/467735 |journal=MELUS |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=155–158 |doi=10.2307/467735 |issn=0163-755X|url-access=subscription }}
References
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External links
- [https://english.cornell.edu/shirley-samuels Cornell University bio]
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Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:Cornell University faculty
Category:American Antiquarian Society members
Category:Early modern women writers