Stetz delivers named professor lecture April 7

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities

4:45 p.m., April 2, 2004--Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities, will present a Named Professor Lecture at 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 7, in 104 Gore Hall. Her topic is “When Patriarchy Got Personal: ‘The World of Henry Orient’ as Feminist Fiction and Film.”

Her research involves 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century women’s literature and culture, with an emphasis on British women, including women at war, women and comedy and late-Victorian women writers and artists.

Stetz has written extensively in her field and is the co-editor of “Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II” and the author of “British Women’s Comic Fiction, 1890-1900: Not Drowning but Laughing.” She is the founding editor of the journal “Turn-of-the-Century Women” and is on the editorial board of the “19th Century Writing and Culture” monograph series, 19th Century Studies and the Rossetti Archive project at the University of Virginia.

Stetz and Mark Samuels Lasner, scholar-in-residence at the University Library, have been curators of many library and museum exhibitions, including “Gender and the London Theatre 1880-1920” at Bryn Mawr College, “Beyond Oscar Wilde” at UD, “Useful and Beautiful: British Books of the 1890s” at the National Gallery of Art Library, “The Yellow Book: A Centenary Exhibition” at Harvard University, “England in the 1890s: Literary Publishing at the Bodley Head” at Georgetown University and “The English Avant-Garde of the 1880s” at the University of Virginia. Stetz and Lasner have written the accompanying catalogs for the exhibitions.

Stetz won the Howard Mumford Jones Prize for the best dissertation in English and American literature, 1780-1900, from Harvard University in 1982. She was the first recipient of the Wise Woman Award for scholarship and service in women’s studies, given by the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education, and a Woman Of Distinction Award was named in her honor by the Georgetown University Women’s Center. She was a scholar-in-residence at Tokyo Women’s Christian University in November 1994.

A graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York, Stetz received a master’s degree from Sussex University in England and master’s and doctoral degrees in English and American language and literature from Harvard University. She served on the faculty of Georgetown University and the University of Virginia before coming to UD in 2002.

Previous named professor lectures in the College of Arts and Sciences have been given this year by Monica Shafi, Elias Ahuja Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, who spoke on “Narrative Matters. Guenther Grass: Fiction and History” on March 11, and Roberta Colman, Willis F. Harrington Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, who spoke on “Exploring Interfaces: Between Enzyme Subunits and Chemistry/Biology” on April 1.

Article by Sue Moncure
Photo by Kathy Atkinson

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