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

Gordon D. Hirsch

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Professor

Department of English
University of Minnesota
310A Lind Hall
207 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612)625-6880
hirsc002@umn.edu

Central Interests

  • Victorian literature
  • The novel
  • Psychological approaches to literature
  • Literature and economic history

Honors & Awards

  • University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2000-present.
  • University of Minnesota Morse-Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2000

Background

  • Education
    • University of California-Berkeley, M.A., Ph.D.
    • Cornell University, B.A.
  • Academic Appointments
    • Associate Chair, Department of English, University of Minnesota, 2003- 2006
    • University of Minnesota, Professor 1988-
    • Director of the Honors Program, College of Liberal Arts, 1989-2000
    • University of Minnesota, Associate Professor 1976-88
    • University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor 1971-76
    • University of Minnesota, Instructor 1970-71

Publications

  • Books
    • Ed., with William Veeder, and contributor. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde After One Hundred Years. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.
  • Articles
    • Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset: Memory, Depression, and Cognitive Science." With Louella Hirsch. Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 39 (2006):165-79.
    • "Tontines Insurance and Commercial Culture: Stevenson and Osbourne's The Wrong Box." Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries. Ed. Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2006.
    • "The Commerical World of The Wrecker." Journal of Stevenson Studies 2 (2005): 70-97.
    • "The Travels of RLS as a Young Man." Victorian Newsletter No 90 (2001): 1-7. Reprinted Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism. Vol 168.Ed. Russel Whitker. Farmington Hills, MI = Thomson Gale, 2006.
    • "Cognitive/Behavioral Psychology and the Case of Pride and Prejudice." Co-authored with Louella Hirsch. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Literature and Psychoanalysis (1999). Ed. Frederico Pereira. Lisbon:Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, 2001. 303-309.
    • "Ardor and Shame in Middlemarch." Shame and Literature. Ed. Joseph Adamson and Hilary Clark. Albany: SUNY P, 1999. 83-99.
    • "Robert Louis Stevenson." British Travel Writers. 1876-1909. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1997. 268-88.
    • "Shame, Pride and Prejudice." Mosaic 25 (1992): 63-78.
    • "Frankenstein, Detective Fiction, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Jekyll and Hyde After One Hundred Years. Ed., Gordon D. Hirsch and William Veeder. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.
    • "Double Binds and Schizophrenogenic Conversations: Readings in Three Middle Chapters of Alice in Wonderland." Denver Quarterly (1984): 85-106.
    • "Psychological Patterns in the Double Plot of Our Mutual Friend." Hartford Studies in Literature 12 (1980): 195-221.
    • "Mr Pickwick's Impotence." Sphinx 3, No. 1 (1979): 28-35.
    • "History Writing in Carlyle's Past and Present." Prose Studies 7 (1984): 225-31.
    • "A Psychoanalytic Rereading of David Copperfield. Charles Dickens: New Perspectives. Ed. Wendell Stacy Johnson. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall 1982. 83-93.
    • "The Laurentian Double: Images of D. H. Lawrence in the Stories." D. H. Lawrence Review 10 (1977): 270-76.
    • "The Mysteries in Bleak House: A Psychoanalytic Study." Dickens Studies Annual, Vol. 4. Ed. Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois U P, 1975. 132-52.
    • "Charles Dickens' Nurse's Stories." Psychoanalytic Review 62 (1975): 173-79.
    • "The Monster Was a Lady: On the Psychology of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Hartford Studies in Literature 7 (1975): 116-53.
    • "Organic Imagery and the Psychology of Mill's On Liberty." Mill News Letter 10 (1975): 3-13.
    • "Tennyson's Commedia." Victorian Poetry 8 (1970): 93-106.
    • Other essays, notes and reviews in Centrum, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Psychoanalytic Review, Victorian Studies.

Teaching

  • Graduate courses
    • EngL 5250: 19th-Century Literature & Culture
    • EngL 8170: 19th-Century British Studies
  • Courses for undergraduate majors
    • EngL 3004: Historical Survey of British Literature
    • EngL 3161: Victorian Literature & Culture
    • EngL 3007: Shakespeare
    • EngL 3020: Studies in Narrative
    • EngL 3960: Junior-Senior Seminar