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Nina Auerbach

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Office Hours: On Leave Fall 09/Spring 10

Nina Auerbach is the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English. Her special area of concentration is nineteenth-century England. She has published, lectured, and reviewed widely in the fields of Victorian literature, theater, cultural history, and horror fiction and film.

Her books include Our Vampires, Ourselves; Private Theatricals: The Lives of the Victorians; Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time; Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts; Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth; and Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction. Her most recent book, Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress inaugurates the University of Pennsylvania Press series, Personal Takes. Her current project is Lost Lives, a study of ghosts and their purposes.

Nina Auerbach has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Fellowship as well as the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2000, she received the annual Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts.


Faculty Awards
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1983 The Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching
recipient

Coursework
English251.401Ironic Romance - Spring 2009
English556.401Victorian Faiths, Victorian Fantasies - Spring 2009
English556.401Victorian Faiths, Victorian Fantasies - Spring 2009
English055.401The Nineteenth-Century British Novel - Fall 2008
English255.401Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the Lack of It - Fall 2008
English290.401Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Home and Hearts - Spring 2008
English556.301Victorian Schisms - Spring 2008
English556.301Victorian Schisms - Spring 2008
English055.401Nineteenth-Century British Novel - Fall 2007
English090.401Gender, Sexuality and Literature: SPECTACLES OF PUNISHED WOMEN - Fall 2007
English556.401Nineteenth Century British Literature: Crying in the Night - Spring 2007
English556.401Nineteenth Century British Literature: Crying in the Night - Spring 2007
English251.301Topics in 19th Century Literature: Jane Austen and Romantic Fiction - Fall 2006
English052.00119th Century Poetry - Fall 2006
English556.401Victorian Fears and Our Own - Spring 2006
English556.401Victorian Fears and Our Own - Spring 2006
English255.301Victorian Heroes and Heroines - Spring 2006
English290.401Gender, Terror, and the Nineteenth Century - Fall 2005
English055.00119th Century Novel - Fall 2005
English055.401The Nineteenth-Century Novel - Spring 2005
English556.401From Noon to Twilight: Victorian Passages - Spring 2005
English556.401From Noon to Twilight: Victorian Passages - Spring 2005
English051.401Victorian Gods and Godlessness - Fall 2004
English255.401Beyond Mars and Venus - Fall 2004
English255.401Spectacles of Punished Women - Spring 2003
English055.00119th Century British Novel - Spring 2003
English255.401Evolutionary Fiction and Facts - Fall 2002
English556.301Spectacular Victorian Suffering - Fall 2002
English556.301Spectacular Victorian Suffering - Fall 2002
English090.401Women & Literature - Spring 2002
English255.301Topics in 19th Century Novel - Spring 2002
English290.401Topics in Women and Literature - Fall 2001
English754.301 The Victorian George Eliot - Fall 2001
English255.301 Topics in 19th Century Novel - Spring 2001
English754.401Victorian Fiction - Fall 2000
English254.30119th Century British Literature - Fall 2000
English255.302Topics in 19th Century Novel - Spring 1999
English055.00119th Century British Novel - Spring 1999
English556.401 19th Century Realism and the Occult - Fall 1998
English556.401 19th Century Realism and the Occult - Fall 1998
English255.301 Topics in 19th Century Novel - Fall 1998
English754.401 19th Century Fictions - Spring 1998
English255.301Topics in Nineteenth Century Novel - Spring 1998
English290.402 Haunting Women - Fall 1997
English255.302Topics in 19th C. Novel - Fall 1996
English760.301England in the 1890's - Fall 1996
English255.301The Feminist Gothic - Spring 1996
English556.301Victorian Faiths, Victorian Fantasies - Spring 1996
English556.301Victorian Faiths, Victorian Fantasies - Spring 1996
English758.301The Victorian George Eliot - Fall 1995
English055.001Victorian Novel - Fall 1995
English255.301Topics in 19th Century Novel: Family Values and Victorian Fictions - Spring 1995
English556.000Spectacles of Punished Women - Spring 1995
English556.000Spectacles of Punished Women - Spring 1995
English760.301England in the 1890s - Fall 1994
English055.00119th Century British Novel - Fall 1994
English090.401Topics in Women and Literature: Vampires - Fall 1993
English556.301Topics in 19th Century: Hero Worship and Heroic Loss - Fall 1993
English760.301England in the 1890�s - Fall 1992
English055.00119th Century British Novel - Fall 1992
English255.301Topics in 19th Century Novel: Hero Worship and Heroic Loss - Fall 1991
English758.301Victorian Faiths, Victorian Fantasies - Fall 1991
English293.401Topics in Literature and Society: Vampires and the Undead - Spring 1991
English563.301Backlash and Lashing Back - Spring 1991
English055.40119th Century British Novel - Fall 1990
English563.301Victorian Play - Fall 1990
English563.301Victorian Play - Fall 1990
English090.401Topics in Women and Literature - Spring 1990
English055.800The Nineteenth-century British Novel - Fall 1989
English090.800Women and Literature - Spring 1988
English055.800The 19th Century British Novel - Fall 1987
English055.800The 19th Century British Novel - Spring 1987
English556.80019th Century Literature - Spring 1987
English254.80019th Century British Literature - Fall 1986
English055.800Victorian Novel - Spring 1986
English290.800Topics in Women and Literature - Spring 1986
English090.800Women and Literature - Fall 1985
English754.800Victorian Literature - Fall 1985
English055.800The Nineteenth Century Novel - Spring 1984
English754.800Victorian Literature - Spring 1984
English090.800Women in Literature - Fall 1983
English556.800Topics in 19th Century Literature: Women and Evolution - Fall 1983
English010.800Evolution of Fiction - Spring 1983
English558.800Topics in 19th Century English Literature: Women and Evolution - Spring 1983
English558.800Topics in 19th Century English Literature: Women and Evolution - Spring 1983
English090.800England, America, and Women - Fall 1982
English754.800Victorian Prose: Realism and Prophecy - Fall 1982
English055.800The Nineteenth Century Novel - Spring 1982
English095.001Major British Writers II - Spring 1982
English090.800Feminism and Fiction - Fall 1981
English756.800Feminist Theory and Fictional Form - Fall 1981

 
 
 
 


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