Ph.D., Columbia University.
Distinguished Professor, Graduate School. Comparative Literature, English, French.

Selected Publications:

• The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.

• The Poetics of Gender. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986; paperback edition, 1987.

• Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988; paperback edition, 1989.

• Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts. New York and London: Routledge, 1991.

• French Dressing: Women, Men and Ancien Regime Fiction. New York and London: Routledge, 1995.

• Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996; paperback edition, Indiana University Press, 2000.

PhD Program in English
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