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Margaret Stetz

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Margaret Stetz

Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies Professor of Humanities
stetzm@udel.edu
 

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Biography

Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware, with secondary appointments in English and affiliations with Material Culture Studies and with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence.

 

Degrees

Dr. Stetz received her B.A. (summa cum laude) from Queens College, CUNY; an M.A. from the University of Sussex, UK; and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize for best dissertation in English and American literature, 1780-1900. Before becoming the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at UD, she taught English and Women's Studies at the University of Virginia and at Georgetown University.
 

Books and Book Chapters

Dr. Stetz is author of more than 130 published essays on subjects ranging from Victorian art and print culture, to neo-Victorian literature and film, to women and war, to fashion. Her books include monographs (British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890–1990, 2001, reissued 2018), exhibition catalogues (Gender and the London Theatre, 1880–1920, 2004; Facing the Late Victorians, 2007), co-edited essay collections (Michael Field and Their World, 2007; Legacies of the Comfort Women of WWII, 2001, reissued 2015), and co-authored exhibition catalogues (The Yellow Book, 1994; England in the 1890s, 1990; England in the 1880s, 1989). She serves on the editorial boards of monograph series (“Nineteenth Century Writing and Culture" for Palgrave Macmillan) and the editorial board of the University of Delaware Press, as well as the editorial boards of peer-reviewed scholarly journals (Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature; Victorian Literature and Culture; Nineteenth-Century Studies; Victorian Periodicals Review; Neo-Victorian Studies; and Papers on Language and Literature).

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Recent book chapters include: 

"New Genres, New Audiences: Retelling the Story of Japan's Military Sexual Slavery." New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women. Ed. Ñusta Carranza Ko. "Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Human Rights in Asia" series. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2023. pp. 113-132.

“British Jewish Identity: Linda Grant as a Flâneuse and ‘Thoughtful Dresser.’” Fashioning the Self: Identity and Style in British Culture. Ed. Emily Priscott. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2023. pp. 137-161.

“'Marriages are just performances': Staging Fashion, Comedy, and Feminism in Love, Loss and What I Wore." Marriage Discourses: Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation. Eds. Jowan A. Mohammed and Frank Jacob. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. pp. 231–53.

“Girls and Military Sexual Slavery through a Feminist Intersectional Lens." Comfort Women: A Fight for Justice and Women's Rights in the United States. Eds. Jung-Sil Lee and Dennis P. Halpin. Carlsbad, CA: Hollym, 2020. pp. 111–24.

“Lessons Still Being Learned from the 'Comfort Women' of World War II." Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 3rd ed. Eds. Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan. New York: New York University Press, 2020. pp. 212–22.

“Fashioning Modern and Modernist Authorship: Rebecca West in the 1920s and 1930s." Fashioning Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Gerald Egan. Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2020. pp. 255–72.

“Making Girl Victims Visible: A Survey of Representations That Have Circulated in the West." Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: The Transnational Redress Movement for the Victims. Eds. Pyong Gap Min, Se Jung Yim, and Thomas Chung. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. pp. 215–29.

“Picture This: Oscar Wilde's Mobile and Migratory 'The Happy Prince.'" Critical Insights: Oscar Wilde. Ed. Frederick S. Roden. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2019. 229-247.

“Time and Tide Waited for Her: Rebecca West's Journalism in the 1920s." Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s–1920s: The Modernist Period. Eds. Carey Snyder and Faith Binckes. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. pp. 183–94.

“'As she feels a god within': Michael Field and Inspiration."  Michael Field, Decadent Moderns. Eds. Ana Parejo-Vadillo and Sarah Parker. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 2019. pp. 47–66.

“Teaching about the 'Comfort System' of World War II: The Hidden Stories of Girls." War and Sexual Violence: New Perspectives in a New Era. Ed. Sarah K. Danielsson. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill/ Ferdinand Schöningh, 2019. pp. 35–49.

“'Tulliver's Travels': Adapting The Mill on the Floss for Young Audiences." Still Crazy About George Eliot 200 Years Later. Ed. Paul Davies. Goring, UK: Bite-Sized Books, 2019. pp. 142–51.

“Reframing the 'Comfort Women' Issue: New Representations of an Old War Crime." Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia: An Introductory Reader. Ed. Frank Jacob. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. pp. 61–77.

"Richard Le Gallienne: A Jongleur Strayed into the Modern World."  Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences. Eds. Kostos Boyiopoulous, Mark Sandy, and Anthony Patterson. NY and London: Routledge, 2019. pp. 118–32.

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Journal Articles

“Whitewashing Antisemitism.” AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies. (Summer 2023): 90–92,

“The Age of Decadence.” Victorian Literature and Culture. [A Cambridge University Press Journal]. 50: 2 (2022): 417–429.

“Miss-Taken Identities:  The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories.” Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens. [Bilingual French/English journal sponsored by the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France.] 96 (Autumn 2022): 1-14

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“Anita Brookner and the Servants: Power Struggles and British Jewish Domestic Spaces in Her Early Fiction." Études Anglaises: Revue du Monde Anglophone. 2021, no. 2 (2021): 155–69.

“'The last of the Victorians': John S. Goodall and the Politics of Picture Books." Image & Narrative. 22, no. 2 (2021): 108–119.

“E. M. Forster and the Legacy of Aestheticism: 'Kipling's Poems' (1909) and Forster's Dialogue with Max Beerbohm." Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw 10 (2020; published March 2021): 239–57.

“Gertrude Käsebier, Photographer: The New Woman in Black and White." Humanities Bulletin. 3, no.2 (2020): 225–36.

“Laying Out a Case and Feeling at Home: Exhibitions in Undergraduate Education." Fwd: Museums Journal (Fall 2020): 115–24.

"Where Parody Meets Satire: Crossing the Line with 'Lady Addle'." Polysèmes: Revue d'études intertextuelles et intermédiales. 23 (Summer 2020): 1–11.      

“Carolyn Wells: Making Fun of Books and Making Books Fun." Gazette of the Grolier Club. New Series: Nos. 68-69 (2020): 44–57.

“Oscar Wilde and the Imaginative Woman: Anna, Comtesse de Brémont." The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies. 54 (January 2019): 53-71.

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Current Projects

Lecture co-sponsored by UD Library and the Delaware Art Museum on “What’s New in the Goblin Marketplace?” in conjunction with the DAM exhibition The Rossettis, January 9, 2024. [https://capture.udel.edu/media/Goblin+Marketplace/1_swc41d32 ]

YouTube talk on Max Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson (1911) for The Global Novel  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhQRVZyKbY]

Appointed to serve on the founding Advisory Board of a new "Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Literary Studies" at the University of Essex, UK, 2023.

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Invited lecture on “What Would Beerbohm Do?” at the New York Public Library (42nd Street and Fifth Avenue), New York City, December 1, 2023.

Curator (with Mark Samuels Lasner) of Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity, art and print culture exhibition at the New York Public Library, Wachenheim Gallery (42nd Street and Fifth Avenue), New York City, October 20, 2023–January 27, 2024.

Curator (with Mark Samuels Lasner) of Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young, art and print culture exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York City, September 8–November 11, 2022.

Invited plenary speaker for the conference “Comic Verse of the 19th Century: Power, Politics, Poetics," University of Roehampton, London, UK, July 20, 2022.

Invited lecture on “In Bed with Aubrey Beardsley," Rosenbach Library and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, March 30, 2022.​

Invited lecture on “Aubrey Beardsley Down Among the Women" for the Aubrey Beardsley Society/Nineteenth Century Studies, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, UK/British Association of Decadence Studies, August 21, 2021. Archived on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3-Xes82unM&t=4s

Keynote lecture for the conference “Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century," King's College, London, UK, June 23, 2021.

Invited lecture on “The 'Comfort Women' Issue: Ongoing Conflicts and Disputed Memories" for the joint Conflict, Reconstruction and Memory (CRAM) & Gender in Culture and Society (GENCAS) Research Groups. Swansea University, Wales, UK, April 29, 2021.

Invited lecture on “Anna, Comtesse de Brémont: Decadent Women's Poetry on Trial in 1895" for the “Zooming Decadence Seminar Series" sponsored by the Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Exeter, UK, December 9, 2020.

Invited lecture on “Shadow-shapes of the Long Fin de Siècle: Ella Erskine and Elkin Mathews in 1909" for the “New Directions in Fin-de-Siècle Studies" symposium, Research Institute of Literature and Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, January 8, 2020.

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