Linda
M.
Shires
DAVID AND RUTH GOTTESMAN PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, EMERITUS
Dr. Linda M. Shires is David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, Emeritus and former Chair of the Stern English Department. She was previously Professor of English at Syracuse University, where she served as Director of Graduate Studies. Visiting posts have included Princeton University and New York University. At Yeshiva since 2008, Shires currently serves on various boards of digital and print journals in Victorian studies, including *Victorian Literature and Culture,* *Nines,* *RaVon,* and *Victorians Institute Journal.*
Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, gender studies, relations of image and text, and representations of the Holocaust.
Honors and Awards include: Phi Beta Kappa, Harold W. Dodds Fellowship, two NEH Summer Seminar Directorships at Princeton, the Syracuse University English Dept. and Graduate School Teaching Awards, the Dean Karen Bacon Award for a senior faculty member at Stern College, and the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Three monographs, a memoir, seven edited volumes, and numerous articles and reviews. Books include: PERSPECTIVES: MODES OF VIEWING AND KNOWING IN 19TH CENTURY ENGLAND (Ohio State), TELLING STORIES, A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE FICTION (co-author Steven Cohan; Routledge), VICTORIANS READING THE ROMANTICS: ESSAYS BY U.C. KNOEPFLMACHER (Ed. Ohio State), REWRITING THE VICTORIANS (Ed., Routledge). Some of her scholarship has been translated into Korean, Arabic, and Chinese.
Her current publications concern self-illustrated texts of the Nineteenth Century, while she continues research on Thomas Hardy.