Felicity Nussbaum Explained

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.^[1]

She earned B.A., magna cum laude from the Austin College and M.A. and Ph.D. from the Indiana University.^[1]

Books

• 2010: Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater ^[2]
• 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".^[3]

• 2000: “Defects”: Engendering the Modern Body
• 1995: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives ^[4]
• 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^[5]
• 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^[6]
• 1989: Co-recipient of the Gottschalk Prize for the best book in its field for 1989 ^[7]
• Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library^[7]
• NEH Fellowship^[7]

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,

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nussbaum, Felicity - Department of English UCLA. english.ucla.edu. September 25, 2019.
2. Web site: Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater | Reviews in History. reviews.history.ac.uk. September 25, 2019.
3. Review of The Global Eighteenth Century, Itinerario, vol. 29, issue 1, 2005, pp. 130-131,
4. Reviewed Work: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives by Felicity A. Nussbaum,,
5. Reviewed Work: The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature by Felicity Nussbaum, Laura Brown,,
6. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Felicity A. Nussbaum. gf.org. September 25, 2019.
7. https://english.yale.edu/news/department-news/felicity-nussbaum Felicity Nussbaum