Linda M. Shires

Professor and Chair, English Department, Stern College, Yeshiva University
1972 BA Wheaton College;
1973 MA Brown University (Classics);
1977 Post-Graduate BA/MA Oxford University (English);
1981 MA/Ph.D. Princeton University (English)

Research and teaching interests:

Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Gender Studies, Modernism, Visual Studies and Epistemology, Practices of Reading; Representation of the Holocaust

Awards, Grants, Fellowships

Faculty Recognition Award for Graduate Teaching, The Graduate School, Syracuse University (2005);
Graduate Teaching Award, English Dept., S.U. (2001);
Guggenheim Fellowship (1993-94);
Director of N.E.H. Summer Seminars at Princeton University (1993 and 1995);
S.U. Summer Research Grants 1982/84/86;
Women's Clubs of N.J. Graduate Fellow (1980-81);
Princeton University Travel Grant to British Library (1980);
Princeton University Dodds Dissertation Fellow (1979-1980);
Princeton University Scholarship (1977-81);
Phi Beta Kappa (1972).

Visitorships

Princeton University, New York University

Editorial Boards

Victorians Institute Journal (UNC)
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (Montreal)
NINES, Victorian Board (U. VA/Purdue)

Books

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

-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.

Works in Progress

Thomas Hardy’s poetry; geometry and Ruskin

Editions

-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.

Selected Articles 1990 on only

"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.

"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.

"'And I was Unaware': The Unknowing Omniscience of Hardy's Narrators," Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts, Phillip Mallet, ed. London: Palgrave, 2002, 31-48.

"The Aesthetics of the Victorian Novel: Structure, Subjectivity, Politics," Deirdre David, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 61-72.

"Victorian Studies and Culture Studies: A Call for Critical Realism," for "Forum," Guest Editor Carolyn Williams, Victorian Literature and Culture, 27.2, 1999, 481-87.

"The Radical Aesthetic of Tess of the d'Urbervilles," for The Cambridge Companion to Hardy, Dale Kramer, ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 145-64.

"Death, Literary Careers, and the Body Politics of David Copperfield," Dickens Refigured, John Schad, ed. Manchester: Manchester U. Press, 1996, 117-35.

"Glass House Visionary: Julia Margaret Cameron Among the Writers," commissioned by Patricia Marx for special issue on Victorian Women. Princeton University Library Chronicle (LVII.1). Autumn 1995, 106-25.

"The Author as Spectacle and Commodity: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Thomas Hardy, ed. Carol Christ and John O. Jordan, The Victorians and the Visual Imagination, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, 198-212.

"Patriarchy, Dead Men, and Tennyson's Idylls of the King," Gerhard Joseph ed. for Special Issue marking Centenary of Tennyson's death, Victorian Poetry, Winter: 1992, 401-419. Reprinted: Longman's Tennyson, ed. Rebecca Stott, London: Longman's: 1996, 161-180.

"Of Maenads, Mothers, and Feminized Males: Victorian Readings of the French Revolution," Rewriting the Victorians: History, Theory and the Politics of Gender, ed. Linda M. Shires, London and New York: Routledge Press, 1992, 147-65.

"Narrative, Gender and Power in Far from the Madding Crowd," Novel, Winter (1991), 162-177. Reprinted: The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Hardy, ed. Margaret R. Higonnet, Urbana: Illinois Press, 1993. Reprinted: Longman's Hardy, ed. Stephen Regan, London: Longman's, 1999.

"Re-Reading Tennyson's Gender Politics," Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power, ed. Thais E. Morgan, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990, 46-65; 273-276.

Most Recent Reviews

Erik Gray, Milton and the Victorians, VIJ  37. 2009, 7-8

Field Review: Victorian Poetry. Books by Helen Groth, Constance Hassett, Ana Vadillo, Kirstie Blair, David Riede, and others, journal issues ed. by Linda Hughes; online articles by Hughes and Joseph Bristow. Victorian Literature and Culture, forthcoming autumn 2008.

Linda Hunt Beckman, Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters, Victorian Studies, 44.1 (Autumn 2001).

Field Review, Victorian Women's Poetry Anthologies and editions. Edited by Armstrong and Bristow, Leighton and Reynolds, Blain and Armstrong, and Higonnet; also McGann's edition of Letitia Landon poems and Yopie Prins on Sappho and the Victorians, for Victorian Literature and Culture, 27.2 (1999), 601-13.

Recent, Forthcoming Lectures

2011: TBA, Hardy at Yale Conference, June, by invitation, Rosemarie Morgan, organizer.

2010: "Multiple Perspectives and/on Women in White," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth C. Studies, "Family/Resemblance," University of Texas, Austin, March

2008: "Pippa Passes and the Staging of Point of View," NAVSA, Yale University, November, Closet Drama Panel, Renata Kobbets Miller, organizer.

2007: "J.M.W. Turner, D.G. Rossetti, and the Reader-Viewer," Society for Textual Scholarship," New York University, March, invited speaker, Nicholas Frankel, organizer.