Linda M. Shires

CURRICULUM VITAE (Condensed)

Professor and Chair, English Department, Stern College, Yeshiva University, New York, NY

EMPLOYMENT 

2009-  Chair, Dept. of English, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University; 
2008-  Professor of English, Yeshiva University;
1996-2008 Professor of English, Syracuse University & Affiliate: Center for European Studies; Women’s Studies; Judaic Studies;
1988-96 Associate Professor, Syracuse University;
1981-88 Assistant Professor, Syracuse University

Visitorships:
1996-97 New York University;
1990-92 Princeton University

EDUCATION

1981 Ph.D., Princeton University (English Literature);
1977 Post-Graduate B.A., Oxford University (English Literature);
1973 M.A., Brown University (Classics);
1972 B.A., Wheaton College, Magna Cum Laude, Dept. Honors, Thesis Honors, Phi Beta Kappa

AWARDS AND GRANTS (selection)

2010 Summer Research Grant, Yeshiva;
2008-09 Kressel Fellowship Mentor, Yeshiva University;
2005 Graduate Education Recognition Award, Syracuse;
2001 Graduate Teaching Award, English Dept., Syracuse;
1993-94 Guggenheim Fellowship;
1993 and 1995 N.E.H. Director of Summer Seminars, at Princeton University

BOOKS & EDITIONS

-Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in 19th Century England. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2009. Link to illustrations page

-Coming Home: A Woman's Story of Conversion to Judaism, Boulder : Westview Press/ Basic Books, NY, 2003.

-Rewriting the Victorians: History, Theory, and the Politics of Gender (Editor and Contributor); Introduction and Afterword, London and New York : Routledge Press, 1992.

-Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction, co-author Steven Cohan, London and New York : Routledge Press, orig. Methuen , New Accents Series, 1988. Nominated for Briggs Prize ( UK ) 1988. Second Ed. 1991; Third Ed. 1993; Fourth Ed. 1996. Tr. To Korean 1997; to Chinese 1998. Chapter 1 excerpted and reprinted in The Communications Theory Reader, ed. Paul Cobley, New York : Routledge, 1996. Taylor and Francis Internet e-book edition 2001. Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition of New Accents Series—published alone and in the set "Theories of Narrative" with volumes by Rimmon-Kenan and Waugh, 2002.

-British Poetry of the Second World War. London : Macmillan Press and New York : St. Martin's Press, 1985.

-Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1912 edition, by Thomas Hardy. Editor. Introduction, Bibliography, History of Text, Additional Readings: Ruskin, Darwin, Caird; essays by Boumelha, Goode, Widdowson. New York: Houghton Mifflin, New Riverside Editions, issued August 2004 (imprint 2005). Commissioned by Alan Richardson, series editor.

-Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. Editor. Introduction and Bibliography. London and New York: Oxford University Press, World's Classics Series, 2002. Commissioned by Pamela Dalziel, series editor.

-The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy. Editor. 1st novel edition of 1880; Introduction, Notes, Collation, History of Text, Appendices, London and New York: Penguin Press, pub. c 1997, issued 1998. Commissioned by Patricia Ingham, series editor.

JOURNAL ISSUE

Editor, "The Dramatic 'I' Poem" Special Issue of Victorian Poetry, 22.2, 1984.

ARTICLES (selection 2002-2010)

"Conrad's Theatre of Masculinities," Masculinity and the Victorian Novel, ed. Phillip Mallet. London: Palgrave, forthcoming, 2011.

"Browning's Grafts," SEL, Special Issue on Hybridity, Fall 2008, 769-778. Reprinted Victorian Hybridities: Cultural Anxiety and Formal Innovation. U.C. Knoepflmacher and Logan D. Browning, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

"Hardy and Nineteenth Century Poetry," Advances in Thomas Hardy Studies, ed. Phillip Mallet. London: Palgrave, 2004, 255-278.

'"Saying that Now You are Not as You Were": Hardy's Poems of 1912-1913,' The Past and Present: Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies, eds. Tim Dolin and Peter Widdowson. London: Palgrave, 2004, 138-152; 215-17.

"Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Cross-Dwelling and the Reworking of Female Poetic Authority," Victorian Literarature and Culture, 30.2, 2002, 327-343.