Emily Anderson

Associate Professor of English

Contact Information
E-mail: ehanders@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3744
Office: THH 402J

 

Biographical Sketch

My research interests include, most broadly, the literature and culture of eighteenth-century England and the historical reception of literary genres. I focus on the relations between literary genres and social trends; the conventions (aesthetic and cultural) that frame individual acts of authorship; and evolutions in theories of fiction. For the past several years, I have explored the relationship between eighteenth-century drama and the novel and, as a result, the evolving relationship between print culture and theatrical performance. 

Education

  • A.B. , Dartmouth College
  • Ph.D. , Yale University, 12/2004

    • Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

    • Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 05/01/2010-  
    • Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 08/15/2004-05/01/2010  

    Description of Research

    Summary Statement of Research Interests
    My first book, Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction (Routledge 2009), considers connections between the novel and drama through a focus on women writers who were simultaneously novelists and playwrights. My current project continues to examine eighteenth-century connections between print culture and theatrical performance by investigating how and why eighteenth-century novelists appropriated Shakespearean characters and themes.
    Research Specialties
    18th-c drama, 18th-c novel, women writers, theater history, genre, life-writing, theories of fiction, character studies

    Publications


    Book

    Book Chapter
    • Anderson, E. H. (2010). She Stoops to Stratagem: A Comparative Approach to Eighteenth-Century Comedy, in Approaches to Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. (Vol. December 2010). New York: MLA. MLA Bookstore

    Book Review
    • Anderson, E. H. (2013). FEMALE MODELS: Review of Caroline Franklin's *The Female Romantics* and Brenda Weber's *Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century*. Times Literary Supplement.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2012). "Protestantism and Its Discontents," Review of Allison Conway's _The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750_. Novel: A Forum on Fiction / Duke UP. pp. 111-115.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2011). "Further Letters of Joanna Baillie". Review 19. Review 19: An Online Review of New Books on English and American Literature of of the 19th Century
    • Anderson, E. H. (2011). "Finding the Plot," Review of Jesse Molesworth's _Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel_. Times Literary Supplement.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2011). Toni Bowers's _Force or Fraud?: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760_. Times Literary Supplement.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2011). "Theatrical Women," Review of Nora Nachumi's Acting Like a Lady: British Women Novelists and the Eighteenth-Century Theater". The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. Theatrical Women
    • Anderson, E. H. (2011). Children's Fiction, 1765-1808; ed. Anne Markey. Times Literary Supplement.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2010). Who were the Bluestockings?. Times Literary Supplement. The Sunday Times
    • Anderson, E. H. (2006). Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Huntington Library Quarterly/Huntington Library. pp. 685-90.

    Journal Article
    • Anderson, E. H. (2013). Why We Do (Or Don't) Argue About the Way We Read. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. Vol. 54 (1), pp. 125-128.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2013). "Self-Citations in Maria Edgeworth's _Helen_". Studies in English Literature. Vol. 52.4 (Autumn 2012), pp. 797-818.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2011). "Celebrity Shylock". PMLA. Vol. 126.4 (October 2011), pp. 935-949.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2011). Teaching the Teachings of the Stage: A Graduate Seminar in Restoration to Romantic Drama. Romantic Circles: Pedagogy Commons. Teaching the Teachings of the Stage
    • Anderson, E. H. (2010). A Shakespearean Character on the 18th-c Stage: Recognizing Perdita. Literature Compass / Wiley-Blackwell. Vol. 7.4 (2010), pp. 266-280. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123338360/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
    • Anderson, E. H. (2009). Autobiographical Interpolations in Maria Edgeworth's Harrington. ELH / Johns Hopkins University Press. Vol. 76.1 (Spring 2009), pp. 1-18.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2007). Novelty in Novels: A Look at What's New in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko. Studies in the Novel/University of North Texas UP. Vol. 39.1 (Spring 2007), pp. 1-16.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2006). Revising Theatrical Conventions in A Simple Story: Elizabeth Inchbald's Ambiguous Performance. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies/Florida State UP. Vol. 6.1(2006), pp. 5-30.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2005). Staged Insensibility in Burney's Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer: How a Playwright Writes Novels. Eighteenth-Century Fiction/McMaster University. Vol. 17.4 (July 2005), pp. 629-48.
    • Anderson, E. H. (2005). Performing the Passions in Eliza Haywood's Fantomina and Miss Betsy Thoughtless. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation/Texas Tech UP. Vol. 46.1 (Summer 2005), pp. 1-15.


    Honors and Awards

    • USC Provost's Award for Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012-2013   
    • USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2009-2010   
    • USC Provost's Award for Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2007-2008  
    • USC Parents' Association Teaching and Mentoring Award, Fall 2007   
    • British Academy Travel Grant, 2005  
    • Huntington Library Research Fellowship Recipient, Mellon Match Fellow, 2005  
    • USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, General Education Teaching Award, Category V, Spring 2005   
    • Hemlow Prize for best new scholarship on Frances Burney, Burney Society, 2004  
    • Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanitistic Studies, 1999-2000  

    Service to the University

    Administrative Appointments
    • Director of Graduate Studies, English Department, 2012-2013   

    Service to the Profession


    Conferences Organized
    • Organizer, Long 18th-Century Seminar at the Huntington, Huntington Library, In cooperation with Felicity Nussbaum at UCLA, I have instituted, and continue to organize, a year long interdisciplinary seminar in eighteenth-century studies at the Huntington Library. For more information, email ehanders@usc.edu., 2006-  

    Professional Memberships
    • American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2000-  
    • Modern Language Association, 2000-  


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