B.A. Bryn Mawr College, M.Phil and Ph.D Yale University
Studies at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, University College, London, and Eberhard-Karls Universitat, Tubingen
Areas of Expertise
Literature of World War I, gender theory and comparative literature, nineteenth-century European women's literature, children's literature, fairy tales and folklore, modernism, "word and image" relations.
Margaret R. Higonnet, Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, has taught at George
Washington University and the Universities of Munich and Santiago de Compostela
(Spain). A past President of the American Conference on Romanticism and the
American Comparative Literature Association, she cochairs the Study Group on
Gender, Society, and Politics at Harvard’s Center for European Studies. Her theoretical
interests have ranged from the romantic roots of modern theories (Bachelard and
Benjamin) to the intersection of feminist theory and comparative literature, as
in the volumes Borderwork (1995),
Gender in Literary History, CCS 6.2 (2009), and Comparatively Queer (forthcoming, 2010). Her work on gender issues
in the nineteenth century is represented by British Women Poets of the
Nineteenth Century (1996) and The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on
Hardy (1992), as well as several editions of Thomas Hardy. Much of her
recent scholarship has been devoted to the literature of World War I, in articles
and in Behind the Lines (1987), Lines of Fire (1999), Nurses
at the Front (2001), and Margaret
Hall’s Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country,1918-1919
(forthcoming). She has also taught courses on “Word and Image,” suicide, and
children’s literature; she edited Children’s Literature for seven years.
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