Margaret Stetz
Margaret Stetz
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Biography
Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the 91原创, with secondary appointments in English and affiliations with Material Culture Studies and with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence.
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Degrees
Dr. Stetz received her B.A. (summa cum laude) from Queens College, CUNY; an M.A. from the University of Sussex, UK; and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize for best dissertation in English and American literature, 1780-1900. Before becoming the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at 91原创, she taught English and Women's Studies at the University of Virginia and at Georgetown University.
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Books and Book Chapters
Dr. Stetz is author of more than 130 published essays on subjects ranging from Victorian art and print culture, to neo-Victorian literature and film, to women and war, to fashion. Her books include monographs (British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890鈥1990, 2001, reissued 2018), exhibition catalogues (Gender and the London Theatre, 1880鈥1920, 2004; Facing the Late Victorians, 2007), co-edited essay collections (Michael Field and Their World, 2007; Legacies of the Comfort Women of WWII, 2001, reissued 2015), and co-authored exhibition catalogues (The Yellow Book, 1994; England in the 1890s, 1990; England in the 1880s, 1989). She serves on the editorial boards of monograph series (鈥淣ineteenth Century Writing and Culture" for Palgrave Macmillan) and the editorial board of the 91原创 Press, as well as the editorial boards of peer-reviewed scholarly journals (Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature; Victorian Literature and Culture; Nineteenth-Century Studies; Victorian Periodicals Review; Neo-Victorian Studies; and Papers on Language and Literature).
Journal Articles
鈥淲hitewashing Antisemitism.鈥澨AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies.听(Summer 2023): 90鈥92,
鈥淭he Age of Decadence.鈥澨Victorian Literature and Culture. [A Cambridge University Press Journal]. 50: 2 (2022): 417鈥429.
鈥淢iss-Taken Identities:听听The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories.鈥澨Cahiers Victoriens et 脡douardiens. [Bilingual French/English journal sponsored by the University Paul-Val茅ry Montpellier, France.] 96 (Autumn 2022): 1-14
Current Projects
Lecture co-sponsored by 91原创 Library and the Delaware Art Museum on 鈥淲hat鈥檚 New in the Goblin Marketplace?鈥 in conjunction with the DAM exhibition听The Rossettis, January 9, 2024. [听]
YouTube talk on Max Beerbohm鈥檚听Zuleika Dobson听(1911) for听The Global Novel听听[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhQRVZyKbY]
Appointed to serve on the founding Advisory Board of a new "Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Literary Studies" at the University of Essex, UK, 2023.
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Stetz Featured in Global Conferences and New Publication
February 20, 2026 | Written by Natasha KapadiaWGS professor examines literature, politics and cultural history across borders -
Professor Stetz Publishes Henry James Study
November 07, 2025 | Written by Natasha Kapadia91原创 professor highlights rare Henry James items, including an unpublished 1897 letter. -
Margaret Stetz Advances Research and Poetry Over Summer
October 16, 2025 | Written by Natasha KapadiaProfessor shares scholarship and creative work at conferences and in publications