Sheila Emerson

Education
Ph.D. Rutgers University
Harvard Graduate School in English
B.A. Radcliffe College, Harvard University

Biography
Sheila Emerson began her career as a critic of 19th-century literature and is now writing fiction.

Research Interests

• Nineteenth-century British and European writing
• Art and art markets in the context of social crisis
• Interrelations between fiction and non-fiction
• The bearing of science on visual and verbal art

Courses Taught

• Art and Social Crisis: The Victorian Past in the American Present
• Empire and Counterculture
• Nineteenth-Century English and European Fiction
• Fiction and Non-Fiction
• The Science of Aspects
• The Nature of Gothic
• Autobiography and Autobiographical Fictions
• Victorian into Modern
• The Victorian Novel
• General View of British Literature
• The Brontës and Hardy
• Austen and Dickens

Publication Highlights

• Essays on Romantic poetry and Victorian fiction
• Ruskin: The Genesis of Invention (Cambridge University Press, 1993, reprinted 2010)
• "The Past is a Femme Fatale" (novel in progress)
• "Death to Hide" (novel in progress)

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