Department of English
207 Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-625-3363

College of Liberal Arts Voices from the Gaps
public lecture

2006 Esther Freier Endowed Speaker T.C. Boyle

"Thanks so much for another wonderful evening! Thanks too for maintaining your mailing list so well, so I get to hear and meet authors from everywhere!"

Lecture attendee

IMPACTS: Feminist Theory and British Literary Studies

In 1980, the feminist subfield was initiated in the Department of English. In the next few years, groundbreaking books in feminist literary discourse were published, including Nancy Armstrong’s Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (1987), Mary Poovey’s The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer (1984), and Kate Flint’s The Woman Reader, 1827-1914 (1993). To mark more than a quarter century of feminist achievements in literary research, we are planning a semester-long inquiry into the place of feminist theory in British literary studies entitled IMPACTS: Feminist Theory and British Literary Studies.

Kate Flint
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
7:30 pm
Lind Hall
207 Church Street South East
Kate Flint is Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her fields of interest include Victorian and early twentieth-century cultural history, visual culture, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century transatlantic studies, Virginia Woolf, women's writing, and gender studies. She is the author of The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2000), The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (Oxford University Press, 1993); and Dickens (Harvester, 1985). She co-edited Culture, Landscape and the Environment (Oxford University Press, 2000) and edited Victorian Love Stories (Oxford University Press, 1996) as well as a number of works by Dickens, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and Anthony Trollope for Penguin Classics and OUP World's Classics.

Nancy Armstrong
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
7:30 pm
Weisman Art Museum
333 East River Road
Nancy Armstrong is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture & Media, and Gender Studies, at Brown University. Her fields of interest include eighteenth and nineteenth-century British and American fiction, empire and sexuality, narrative theory, critical theory, and visual culture. She is the author of How Novels Think: British Fiction and the Limits of Individualism (Columbia University Press, 2005); Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism (Harvard University Press, 1999); and, with Leonard Tennenhouse, The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (University of California Press, 1992)

Mary Poovey
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
7:30 pm
Lind Hall
207 Church Street South East
Mary Poovey is Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, and Director, Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, at New York University. Her field of interest is Victorian literature and culture. Among her books are: A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (University of Chicago Press, 1998), Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 (University of Chicago Press, 1995), and Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (University of Chicago Press,1989).