American Studies Faculty and Staff
Carol Houlihan Flynn
| Position | Professor, English & American Studies |
| Office location | English Department, East Hall |
| Office hours | |
| carol.flynn@tufts.edu | |
| Phone | 617.627.2840 |
| Education | B.A.
in English, University of Illinois M.A. in American Civilizations, Brown University Ph.D. in English, University of California at Berkeley |
| Personal Statement | "I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. I received a BA in English from the University of Illinois, an MA in American Civilization from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. After spending four years in London, where I wrote a novel (unpublished) and my book on Richardson, I moved back to the states and began teaching at New York University. After getting tenure at NYU, I moved in 1985 to Boston and Tufts, where I am now Professor of English. At Tufts, I have been Graduate Director, Director of American Studies, Director of the Somerville Conversations, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and a member of way too many committees. I write academic books and novels (one actually published), like to cook and eat, love dogs, go to the opera, climb hills and hike, particularly in Scotland, where my husband and I have a little cottage on a tidal river that runs into the Solway Firth. My husband and I each have kids, all in their thirties, and grandchildren, seven girls and one boy. They live nearby, so now one of the best things we do is take walks and sometimes run around Jamaica Pond and the Arboretum with them. I live in Jamaica Plain with my husband, David Tarbet." |
| Select Publications |
“Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots?" Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture, edited by Paula Backsheider and Catherine Ingrassia, Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarisa Project, edited and introduced by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999. The Body in Swift and Defoe, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Samuel Richardson: A Man of Letters, Princeton University Press, 1982. Washed in the Blood, a novel, Seaview/Putnam Press, 1983. "Running out of Matter: The Body Exercised in Eighteenth-Century Fiction," The Languages of the Psyches, ed., G. Rousseau, University of California Press, 1990 "Closing Down Masterpiece Theater," Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation, 1996. Reprinted in Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by David H. Richter, Texas Tech University Press, 1999. "Jane Austen's Letters," The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet MacMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997. "Where the Wild Things Are: Guides to Eighteenth-Century London," Eighteenth-Century Heresies, edited by Pat Rogers, Bucknell University Press, 2002. |
| Courses Taught | The Age of Unreason Reason and Revolt A Decade of Revolution Narrative and American Identity Burney and Austen Mapping London Girls' Books Romance without Finance is a Nuisance The Sentimental Moment Writing Lives |