EDUCATION
B.A.,
Duquesne University
Ph.D., Indiana University
CURRENT
POSITION
Professor
of English, Boston College
ACADEMIC PROFILE
Specializes
in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British fiction,
Victorian literature, Women's Studies, religion and literature,
and popular-culture genres.
PUBLICATIONS
(SELECTED)
- Forthcoming, Behind Her Times: The Novels of Mary
Arnold Ward
- Abortion, Choice, and Contemporary Fiction: The Armageddon
of the Maternal Instinct (1991)
- Making Humans , a combined edition (with introduction
and other materials) of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
and H.G. Wells's T he Island of Doctor Moreau (2002)
- "Bronte's Shirley : Reflections on Marrying Moores,"
Victorian Literature and Culture (March 2002)
- "Masques of the English in Barnaby Rudge ," Dickens
Studies Annual: 2000 (2001).
- Secret Leaves: The Novels of Walter Scott (1986)
COURSES
AT MARQUETTE
ENGL
198: Special Topics: Catholic Characters in Film and Fiction
Within the general field of ‘religion and literature'
the new field of ‘Catholic Studies' is now emerging. In
that context this course is interested in the creation
and presentation of Catholic characters, and reflections
on character of ‘the Catholic,' in modern culture, by
writers and filmmakers in England and America over the
past hundred years. We'll read classic short stories by
James Joyce, Sandra Cisneros and others, novels by Hemingway
and Graham Greene, Mary Gordon's The Company of Women
and Robert Stone's A Flag for Sunrise , perhaps also the
DaVinci Code . Films we'll see together include “Angels
with Dirty Faces,” “Bells of Saint Mary's,” “Household
Saints,” and “Priest”: others will be suggested for reports.
There will be some scope too for thinking and writing
about Catholic characters in popular culture genres like
TV shows, detective and science fiction novels, etc.
ADDITIONAL
PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
Judith Wilt is
a founding member of the Women's StudiesCommittee at Boston
College and has published essays and given papers recently
on women writers as diverse as Ayn Rand, Toni Morrison,
Georgette Heyer and Virginia Woolf. She is also moderator
of the Arts and Sciences Faculty.
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