Felicity Nussbaum

{{short description|American academic}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} '''Felicity A. Nussbaum''' (born 1944) is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]]. Her research interests include 18th-century literature and culture, critical theory, [[gender studies]], and postcolonial and Anglophone studies. In the past, she taught at [[Syracuse University]] and [[Indiana University South Bend]].<ref name=ucla>{{cite web|url=https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/nussbaum-felicity/|title=Nussbaum, Felicity - Department of English UCLA|website=english.ucla.edu|accessdate=September 25, 2019}}</ref><ref name=IUSB>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/515654806/ "IUSB Reports 36 New Members Join Faculty, Staff"], ''[[The South Bend Tribune]]'', South Bend, Indiana, volume XCVIII, number 230, October 26, 1970, page 23. {{subscription required}}</ref>

She earned B.A., ''[[magna cum laude]]'' from the [[Austin College]] and M.A. and Ph.D. from the [[Indiana University Bloomington]].<ref name=ucla/><ref name=IUSB/>

==Books== *2010: Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater <ref name="history">{{cite web|url=https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1058|title=Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater | Reviews in History|website=reviews.history.ac.uk|accessdate=September 25, 2019}}</ref> *2008: (co-ed. with [[Saree Makdisi]]) The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West *2003: The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century *2003: (ed.) The Global Eighteenth Century *:The 21 essays of the book are "contributions to the new field of 'critical global studies' of the long eighteenth century".<ref>Review of The Global Eighteenth Century, ''[[Itinerario]]'', volume 29, issue 1, 2005, pages 130-131, {{doi|10.1017/S0165115300021793}}</ref> *2000: "Defects": Engendering the Modern Body *1995: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives <ref>Reviewed Work: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives by Felicity A. Nussbaum, {{JSTOR|464146}}, {{doi|10.2307/464146}}</ref> *1989: The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England *1987: (co-ed. with Laura Brown) The New Eighteenth Century: Theory/Politics/English Literature<ref>Reviewed Work: The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature by Felicity Nussbaum, Laura Brown, {{JSTOR|3195168}}, {{doi|10.2307/3195168}}</ref> *1984: "The Brink of All We Hate": English Satires on Women, 1660–1750 *1976: (ed.) Three Seventeenth-Century Satires

==Honors== Her academic honors include: *1991: Fellow of the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]]<ref name="gf">{{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/felicity-a-nussbaum/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Felicity A. Nussbaum|website=gf.org|accessdate=September 25, 2019}}</ref> *1989: Co-recipient of the [[Gottschalk Prize]] for the best book in its field for 1989 <ref name=yale>[https://english.yale.edu/news/department-news/felicity-nussbaum Felicity Nussbaum], a profile at Yale (retrieved September 25, 2019)</ref> *Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the [[Huntington Library]]<ref name=yale/> *[[NEH]] Fellowship<ref name=yale/>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://asecsgradcaucus.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/interview-with-professor-felicity-nussbaum/ "Interview with Professor Felicity Nussbaum"] by Michael Nicholson, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities Institute, October 31, 2016, {{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nussbaum, Felicity}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty]] [[Category:Syracuse University faculty]] [[Category:Indiana University South Bend faculty]] [[Category:Indiana University Bloomington alumni]] [[Category:Austin College alumni]] [[Category:American academics of English literature]] [[Category:American gender studies academics]] [[Category:American literary critics]] [[Category:American women literary critics]]