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Stetz delivers named professor lecture April 7
Her research involves 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century womens literature and culture, with an emphasis on British women, including women at war, women and comedy and late-Victorian women writers and artists. Stetz has written extensively in her field and is the co-editor of Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II and the author of British Womens Comic Fiction, 1890-1900: Not Drowning but Laughing. She is the founding editor of the journal Turn-of-the-Century Women and is on the editorial board of the 19th Century Writing and Culture monograph series, 19th Century Studies and the Rossetti Archive project at the University of Virginia. Stetz and Mark Samuels Lasner, scholar-in-residence at the University Library, have been curators of many library and museum exhibitions, including Gender and the London Theatre 1880-1920 at Bryn Mawr College, Beyond Oscar Wilde at UD, Useful and Beautiful: British Books of the 1890s at the National Gallery of Art Library, The Yellow Book: A Centenary Exhibition at Harvard University, England in the 1890s: Literary Publishing at the Bodley Head at Georgetown University and The English Avant-Garde of the 1880s at the University of Virginia. Stetz and Lasner have written the accompanying catalogs for the exhibitions. Stetz won the Howard Mumford Jones Prize for the best dissertation in English and American literature, 1780-1900, from Harvard University in 1982. She was the first recipient of the Wise Woman Award for scholarship and service in womens studies, given by the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education, and a Woman Of Distinction Award was named in her honor by the Georgetown University Womens Center. She was a scholar-in-residence at Tokyo Womens Christian University in November 1994. A graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York, Stetz received a masters degree from Sussex University in England and masters and doctoral degrees in English and American language and literature from Harvard University. She served on the faculty of Georgetown University and the University of Virginia before coming to UD in 2002. Previous named professor lectures in the College of Arts and Sciences have been given this year by Monica Shafi, Elias Ahuja Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, who spoke on Narrative Matters. Guenther Grass: Fiction and History on March 11, and Roberta Colman, Willis F. Harrington Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, who spoke on Exploring Interfaces: Between Enzyme Subunits and Chemistry/Biology on April 1. Article by Sue Moncure To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |