Nancy Glazener
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Associate Professor of English
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Nancy Glazener is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies. She also teaches in the Women’s Studies Program. Her scholarship and teaching focus on 18th, 19th, and 20th-century U.S. literature, especially fiction. Her book Reading for Realism: The History of a U. S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910, was published in 1997 by Duke University Press in the New Americanists series.
Glazener’s research and teaching interests include the institutional history of literary studies, ethics, print culture, gender and sexuality studies, class politics, reception theory, and the history of personhood. She is a member of the editorial board of American Literature and a contributing editor for American Literary History. Her recent and forthcoming publications include:
- “Women in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture,” The Cambridge History of American Women’s Writing, ed. Dale Bauer (forthcoming from Cambridge UP).
- “The Novel in Postbellum Print Culture,” The Cambridge History of the American Novel, ed. Leonard Cassuto, Clare Eby, and Benjamin Reiss (Cambridge UP, 2012).
- “Benjamin Franklin and the Limits of Secular Civil Society,” American Literature 80 (June 2008) 2: 203-232. This essay won the Norman Foerster Prize sponsored by the American Literature section of the MLA in 2008.
- “Print Culture as an Archive of Dissent: Or, Delia Bacon and the Case of the Missing Hamlet,” American Literary History 19 (Summer 2007) 2: 329-349.
- “The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism,” A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914, ed. Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson (Blackwell, 2005) 15-34.
- “The Novel, The Social, and The Event: An International Ethical Encounter,” Textual Ethos Studies, Or Locating Ethics, ed. Anna Fähraeus and AnnKatrin Jonsson (Rodopi, 2005) 35-52.
Glazener is at work on two book projects: “U. S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century” and “A Critical History of Ethics and U. S. Fiction.”
Recent Graduate Courses
- “Theories of Gender and Sexuality” (for the Women’s Studies Program)
- “History of Criticism”
- “Novels: Texts and Theory”
- “Ethics and Literature”
- “The Enlightenment and U. S. Literature”
Recent Undergraduate Courses
- “American Literature to 1860”
- “Emergence of Modern America”
- “Introduction to Critical Reading”
- “Literature and the Contemporary”
- Junior Seminar, “History and Representation”
Recent Service
- Associate Chair, English Department
- English Department Graduate Admissions Committee
- English Department Planning & Budget Committee
- University Senate Budget Committee
- Chair, Arts & Sciences Faculty Grants Committee
- Member, Arts & Sciences Nominating Committee
- Women’s Studies Steering Committee
