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Constance Harsh

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Constance Harsh

Rebecca S. Chopp Chair in the Humanities; Professor of English

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English and Creative Writing
301 Lathrop Hall
  • M 11:15am - 12:00pm (100 Hamilton Street Classroom)
  • R 1:00pm - 3:00pm (301 Lathrop Hall)

Constance Harsh has been a professor at 51风流 since 1988 and has served in a variety of leadership posts, including the position of Interim Dean of the Faculty and Provost. She has taught courses in the history of the novel, Victorian fiction, the Bront毛s, the female protagonist, and introductory literary study. As a longtime instructor in the Core, she has taught the modernity course in the various forms that it has taken since her arrival. Her research specialty is Victorian fiction, and her recent focus has been the fiction of George Gissing, particularly his representation of women鈥檚 subjectivity. 

BA, MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

19th-century British fiction

  • Victorian fiction
  • George Gissing 
  • John Cowper Powys
  • British fiction of the 1890s
  • Late-Victorian publishing and reviewing practices
  • Interim Dean of the Faculty and Provost, 2015-17 
  • Chair of the Department of English, 2014-2015, 2019-
  • Director of the Division of University Studies, 2009-2013
  • Co-Chair, Middle States Self-Study (2008 reaccreditation)
  • University Professor and Chair of Core 152, 鈥淐hallenges of Modernity,鈥 1996-1998
  • University Professor and Chair of GNED 102, 鈥淭he Challenge of Modernity,鈥 1994-1995
  • 鈥溾橣or Her Own Satisfaction Alone鈥? Dress in The Odd Women,鈥 鈥淕issing in Vogue,鈥 supplement to Gissing Journal 54.4 (2020): 9-10.
  • 鈥淭he London Frame of Mind in Born in Exile,鈥 Victoriographies 10 (2020): 165-76.
  • 鈥溾楨ntirely to My Taste鈥: Gissing鈥檚 Reception of Charlotte Bront毛,鈥&苍产蝉辫;A World within the World: George Gissing鈥檚 Vision of Art and Literature, ed. Maria Teresa Chialant, Emanuela Ettorre, and Christine Huguet (Rome: Aracne, 2018) 143-58. 
  • Gender, Type, and Individual Identity in Isabel Clarendon,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Gissing Journal 52 (2018): 27-37
  • 鈥淕issing and Women in the 1890s: The Conditions and Consequences of Narrative Sympathy,鈥&苍产蝉辫;George Gissing and the Woman Question: Convention and Dissent, ed. Christine Huguet and Simon J. James (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013) 29-39.
  • 鈥淕issing and Religion: Some Aspects of His Use of Christianity in His Fiction,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Writing Otherness: The Pathways of George Gissing鈥檚 Imagination, ed. Christine Huguet ([Haren]: Equilibris, 2010) 217-36.
  • 鈥淔antasies of Recuperation in Eve's Ransom,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Eve's Ransom: George Gissing e le sfide del romanzo tardo-vittoriano, ed. Maria Teresa Chialant, Studi di Anglistica 22 (Rome: Aracne, 2010) 67-82. 
  • 鈥溾楾he Foolish Virgin鈥 and the One Thing Needful,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Spellbound, George Gissing, ed. Christine Huguet ([Haren]: Equilibris, 2008) II: 109-17.
  • A Sunless Heart, by Edith Johnstone (Peterborough: Broadview, 2008).
  • 鈥淭he Ambivalently Modern Master: Hedges against the Modern in Meredith鈥檚 The Amazing Marriage,鈥&苍产蝉辫;ELT 48 (2005): 436-58. 
  • 鈥淭he Text of Eve鈥檚 Ransom: Insights from the Illustrated London News Serialization,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Gissing Journal 41.3 (July 2005): 1-9.
  • 鈥淔lowers on the Dunghill in The Nether World,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Victorian Newsletter 102 (2002): 9-15.
  • 鈥淓liza Lynn Linton as a New Woman Novelist,鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Rebel of the Family, ed. Deborah Meem (Peterborough: Broadview, 2002) 456-74.
  • 鈥淧utting Idiosyncrasy in Its Place: Michael Armstrong in Light of Trollope's Early Fiction,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Frances Trollope and the Novel of Social Change, ed. Brenda Ayres (Westport: Greenwood, 2002) 119-35.
  • "Women with Ideas: Gissing's The Odd Women and the New Woman Novel," A Garland for Gissing, ed. Bouwe Postmus (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001) 81-89.
  • 鈥淲restling with Nietzsche: John Cowper Powys鈥檚 Engagement with Nietzsche in the Early Years  of the First World War,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Powys Journal 11 (2001): 63-81.
  • 鈥淩eviewing New Woman Fiction in the Daily Press: The Times, the Scotsman, and the Daily Telegraph,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Victorian Periodicals Review 34 (2001): 79-96. 
  • Subversive Heroines: Feminist Resolutions of Social Crisis in the Condition-of-England Novel (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994) 
  • 鈥淕颈蝉蝉颈苍驳鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;In the Year of Jubilee and the Epistemology of Resistance,鈥&苍产蝉辫;SEL 34 (1994): 853-75. 
  • 鈥淕eorge Gissing鈥檚 Thyrza: Romantic Love and Ideological Co-Conspiracy,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Gissing Journal 30 (1994): 1-12. 
  • 鈥淓ffaced by History: Elizabeth Gaskell鈥檚 Reformulation of Scott,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Scott in Carnival, ed. J.H. Alexander and David Hewitt (Aberdeen: ASLSs, 1993) 530-42. 
  • 鈥淕颈蝉蝉颈苍驳鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;The Unclassed and the Perils of Naturalism,鈥&苍产蝉辫;ELH 59 (1992): 911-38.
  • Christ and Satan: The Measured Power of Christ,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 90 (1989): 243-53.