Nancy Armstrong
Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture & Media, and Gender Studies
Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 340
Phone: (401) 863-3624
On leave AY 2008-09
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Degrees
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1977
B.A. S.U.N.Y Buffalo, 1966
Research Interests
Nancy Armstrong's fields
of interest include eighteenth and nineteenth-century
British and American fiction, empire and sexuality, narrative theory,
critical theory, and visual culture.
Professional Accomplishments
Armstrong is author of How Novels Think: British fiction and the Limits of Individualism (Columbia University Press, 2005); Fiction in The Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism (Harvard University Press, 1999); with Leonard Tennenhouse. The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, And The Origins Of Personal Life (University of California Press, 1992); Desire And Domestic Fiction: A Political History Of The Novel (Oxford University Press, 1987); and nearly 100 articles, chapters, and reprints (in at least 6 different languages) on the historical semiotics of literature, gender, and visual culture. She is Managing Editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction and co-editor of Encyclopedia of British Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2005).
