Linda M. Shires

CURRICULUM VITAE (Condensed)

EMPLOYMENT

2011- Chair, English Dept., Stern College for Women, and Co-Chair, English, Yeshiva University;
2009- Chair, English Dept., Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University;
2008- Professor of English, Yeshiva University;
1996-2008 Professor of English, Syracuse University, Director of Graduate Studies; & 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./M.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)

2011 Dean Karen Bacon Senior Faculty Award, Stern College;
2010-12 Summer Research Grant, Yeshiva;
2008-09 and 2012-13 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

-From Romantic to Victorian: Essays of U.C. Knoepflmacher. Editor. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, under contract

-Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in 19th Century England. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2009. Link to illustrations page (Reviews: Julie Codell, Hilary Fraser, Jennifer Green-Lewis)

-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. Reprinted in hardback facsimile edition, Spring, 2012, as part of a Women, Feminism & Literature series. To be reprinted in paperback and e-book later in 2012.

-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-)

"Thomas Hardy," Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. N.Y.: Blackwell. Peer-reviewed, multi-volume anthology, Dino Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes ed. Due Sept. 2013.

"Hardy's Late Fiction, Feeling, and Narrative Ethics," The Real and the Imaginary: New Essays on Thomas Hardy commissioned by Jane Thomas, ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Due 2013. 

"Theories of Color, 1831 and 1840," BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth- Century History, Peer-reviewed online resource for www.ravon.umontreal.ca, Dino Felluga, ed. Due June 2012.

"Image and Text in Wessex Poems" in revision for publication.

"Hardy's Browning: Refashioning the Lyric," Bicentenary issue on "Browning and After," ed. Mary Ellis Gibson and Britta Martens, Victorian Poetry, Winter 2012.

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

"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.