# Felicity Nussbaum

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American academic

**Felicity A. Nussbaum** (born 1944) is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles). Her research interests include 18th-century literature and culture, critical theory, [gender studies](/source/Gender_studies), and postcolonial and Anglophone studies. In the past, she taught at [Syracuse University](/source/Syracuse_University) and [Indiana University South Bend](/source/Indiana_University_South_Bend).[1][2]

She earned B.A., *[magna cum laude](/source/Magna_cum_laude)* from the [Austin College](/source/Austin_College) and M.A. and Ph.D. from the [Indiana University Bloomington](/source/Indiana_University_Bloomington).[1][2]

## Books

- 2010: Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater [3]

- 2008: (co-ed. with [Saree Makdisi](/source/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".[4]

- 2000: "Defects": Engendering the Modern Body

- 1995: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives [5]

- 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[6]

- 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](/source/John_Simon_Guggenheim_Memorial_Foundation)[7]

- 1989: Co-recipient of the [Gottschalk Prize](/source/Gottschalk_Prize) for the best book in its field for 1989 [8]

- Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the [Huntington Library](/source/Huntington_Library)[8]

- [NEH](/source/NEH) Fellowship[8]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ucla_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ucla_1-1) ["Nussbaum, Felicity - Department of English UCLA"](https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/nussbaum-felicity/). *english.ucla.edu*. Retrieved September 25, 2019.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-IUSB_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-IUSB_2-1) ["IUSB Reports 36 New Members Join Faculty, Staff"](https://www.newspapers.com/image/515654806/), *[The South Bend Tribune](/source/The_South_Bend_Tribune)*, South Bend, Indiana, volume XCVIII, number 230, October 26, 1970, page 23. (subscription required)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-history_3-0)** ["Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater | Reviews in History"](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1058). *reviews.history.ac.uk*. Retrieved September 25, 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Review of The Global Eighteenth Century, *[Itinerario](/source/Itinerario)*, volume 29, issue 1, 2005, pages 130-131, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/S0165115300021793](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0165115300021793)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Reviewed Work: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives by Felicity A. Nussbaum, [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [464146](https://www.jstor.org/stable/464146), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/464146](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F464146)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Reviewed Work: The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature by Felicity Nussbaum, Laura Brown, [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [3195168](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3195168), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/3195168](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F3195168)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-gf_7-0)** ["John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Felicity A. Nussbaum"](https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/felicity-a-nussbaum/). *gf.org*. Retrieved September 25, 2019.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-yale_8-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-yale_8-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-yale_8-2) [Felicity Nussbaum](https://english.yale.edu/news/department-news/felicity-nussbaum), a profile at Yale (retrieved September 25, 2019)

## External links

- ["Interview with Professor Felicity Nussbaum"](http://asecsgradcaucus.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/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,

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