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• NAME: Michele Martinez (Will not be teaching 2008-09)
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: Britain
• Ph.D., Yale (English)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • British and Irish literature, 1700-present
  • Poetry and poetics
  • The visual arts and literature (e.g., painting, sculpture, photography, book illustration, film)
  • Art/literature movements, especially Victorian and Modernist (e.g., Pre-Raphaelitism, William Morris & his followers, Neoclassicism, Aestheticism, Vorticism, Bloomsbury, et al.)
  • Women’s history in Britain and America
  • Women authors and artists
  • Feminist and gender theory
  • Travel literature
  • Autobiography and memoirs
  • Narrative theory and the novel
  • Postcolonial theory
  • Ovid and English literature
  
  
  • Authors: Wollstonecraft, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, the Shelleys, Carlyle, Dickens, the Brownings, the Brontës, the Rossettis, Ruskin, Hardy, G. Eliot, Wilde, James, Dickinson, Joyce, Woolf, Heaney
• DISSERTATION TOPIC OR TITLE: "Pygmalion’s Image: Ovid, Sculpture and Women’s Poetry, 1770-1880"
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: mcmartin@fas
• OFFICE: Barker 075
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• Barker Center 122, Cambridge, MA 02138
• Phone: (617) 495-4029 | Fax: (617) 496-5605 | Email: histlit@fas.harvard.edu

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