Felicity Nussbaum
Felicity A. Nussbaum 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.
She earned B.A., magna cum laude from the Austin College and M.A. and Ph.D. from the Indiana University.Books
- 2010: Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
- 2008: 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: 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".
- 2000: “Defects”: Engendering the Modern Body
- 1995: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives
- 1989: The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England
- 1987: The New Eighteenth Century: Theory/Politics/English Literature
- 1984: “The Brink of All We Hate”: English Satires on Women, 1660–1750
- 1976: Three Seventeenth-Century Satires
Honors
Her academic honors include:
