Beverly Haviland
Senior Lecturer and Visiting Associate Professor, American Civilization. Concentration Advisor:
American Civilization
Phone: +1 401 863 1612
Beverly_Haviland@Brown.EDU
Beverly Haviland works in19th-century American, English and French literature, 20th-century American literature and film, cultural history, and feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene and essays on various literary and cultural topics, including two that have won prizes: one treats Bret Easton Ellis as a novelist of manners and the other is on the accusation of plagiarism that ended Nella Larsen's brilliant and brief career.
Biography
Beverly Haviland (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1982, Comparative Literature) is Visiting Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in American Civilization. She works in nineteenth-century American, English and French literature, twentieth-century American literature and film, cultural history, and feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene and essays on various literary and cultural topics, including two that have won prizes: one treats Bret Easton Ellis as a novelist of manners and the other is on the accusation of plagiarism that ended Nella Larsen's brilliant and brief career. Her current research is 1) on the way that race is implicated in cultural institutions, such as film and copyright, at the turn of the twentieth-century and 2) on the representation of child sexual abuse in film, television and literature. In 2003-2004 she was a Faculty Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women in a seminar whose topic was "Shame."
Interests
Beverly Haviland's research interests are 19th-century American, English and French literature, 20th-century American literature and film, cultural history, and feminist and psychoanalytic theory. Her current research is on the way that race is implicated in cultural institutions, such as film and copyright, at the turn of the 20th-century, and on the representation of child sexual abuse in film, television and literature. In 2003-2004 she was a Faculty Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women in a seminar whose topic was "Shame."
Degrees
(Ph.D., Princeton University, 1982, Comparative Literature)
Awards
2003-2004: Faculty Fellow, Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women, Brown University
1999: University Learning Communities Teaching Fellow, NYS/UUP PDQWL Continuing Faculty Development Grant
1998: The Margaret Church Memorial Prize ($200), Modern Fiction Studies for "Passing from Paranoia to Plagiarism: The Abject Authorship of Nella Larsen"
1997: National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant ($25,000) for New American Studies at Stony Brook (co-author)
1997-1998: Stony Brook Academy of Teacher-Scholars Grant ($10,000 for group project)
1990: Faculty Center Fellowship, Vassar College ($1,000 for "Dilemmas of Person and Property")
1989: The John H. McGinnis Award ($1,000), The Southwest Review for "Minimal Manners, or The Novel of Manners in an Age with Few"
1987-1988: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship ($25,000) for Henry James's Sense of the Present (retitled: Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene)
1985: American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid ($1,500) for research on James manuscripts at Houghton Library, Harvard University
1975-1981: Princeton University Fellowship
Affiliations
American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
National Book Critics Circle
Teaching
Professor Haviland teaches several advanced seminars and survey courses. Some recent courses include "Women/Writing/Power: Toni Morrison, Maryse Conde and Feminist Literary Theory", which examines works by these writers in the context of the development of feminist literary theory, "Henry James and The American Scene," which is a study of James's representation of the American read in the context of the cultural changes of the late nineteenth century, and "Race and Psychoanalysis," which explores the evolving discourses of race emerging in and reflected by psychoanalysis since its founding by Freud.
Funded Research
2005-2006: Departmental Research Funds, Office of the Vice President for Research, $2000
2004-2005: ITG Grant
2003-2004: Departmental Research Funds, Office of the Vice President for Research, $2000
1997: National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant ($25,000) for New American Studies at Stony Brook (co-author)
1987-1988: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship ($25,000) for Henry James's Sense of the Present (retitled: Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene)
Curriculum Vitae
