Gillian Silverman, Assistant Professor

education

B.A., Brown University
Ph.D. Program in Literature, Duke University

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS

American Literature
Cultural Studies
Critical Theory
Women’s and Gender Studies
History of the Book

Courses Taught REGULARLY AT UCD

ENGL 4230/5230: The American Novel
ENGL 3700/5650: American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War
ENGL 3001: Critical Writing
ENGL 6001: Critical Theory in Literature and Film
ENGL 4306/5306: Survey of Feminist Thought
ENGL 1600: Telling Tales
ENGL 2600: Great Works in British and American Literature

SELECTED ACADEMIC Publications

“The Best Circus in Town: Embodied Theatrics in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates,” American Literary History, forthcoming.

“‘The Polishing Attrition’: Reading, Writing, and Renunciation in the Work of Susan Warner,” Studies in American Fiction 33.1 (Spring 2005): 3-28.

“Sympathy and Its Vicissitudes,” American Studies 43.3 (Fall 2003): 5-28.

“Textual Sentimentalism: Incest and Authorship in Melville’s Pierre,” American Literature 74.2 (June 2002): 345-372.  Winner of the 2002 Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature.

SELECTED NON-ACADEMIC Publications

“Surprise Delivery,” New York Times Magazine 2 November 2003: 84.

“It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Plagiarism Buster,” Newsweek 15 July 2002: 12.

book project

Bodies and Books: Reading, Authorship, and Fantasies of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America.  In progress.