Margaret D. Stetz
University of Delaware

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Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware. Her books include  Facing the Late Victorians (2007),  Gender and the London Theatre, 1880-1920 (2004),  and British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890—1990: Not Drowning, But Laughing ( 2001);  and, with Mark Samuels Lasner, The Yellow Book: A Centenary Exhibition (1994),  England in the 1890s: Literary Publishing at the Bodley Head (1990),  and England in the 1880s: Old Guard and Avant-Garde (1989);  as well as Michael Field and Their World, co-edited with Cheryl A. Wilson,  and Legacies of the Comfort Women of WWII (2001), co-edited with Bonnie B. C. Oh. She has published more than 100 essays  and reviews related to 19th through 21st century literary and cultural history and has curated or co-curated seven major exhibitions on Victorian publishing history and art. She received her M.A. from the University of Sussex, UK, and her Ph.D from Harvard University. Before joining the UD faculty in 2002, she taught at the University of Virginia and at Georgetown University.  Her teaching interests include women and material culture, women’s representations of war, women’s comedy, and late-Victorian feminism. Her current book project, due to be published in 2008, is Wilde, New Women, the Bodley Head and Beyond.