Professor, Women's Studies
Room 206, 34 W. Delaware Ave.
Newark, DE 19716
302.831.3170
stetzm@udel.edu
Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware. Her books include Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection (University of Delaware Press, 2007); Gender and the London Theatre, 1880-1920 (Rivendale Press, 2004); British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890-1990 (Ashgate, 2001); a co-edited volume of essays (with Bonnie B. C. Oh) on military sexual slavery, Legacies of the Comfort Women of WWII (M. E. Sharpe, 2001); a co-edited volume of essays (with Cheryl A. Wilson) on two Victorian women poets, Michael Field and Their World (Rivendale Press, 2007); as well as co-authored books (with Mark Samuels Lasner), such as England in the 1880s: Old Guard and Avant-Garde (University of Virginia Press, 1989) and England in the 1890s: Literary Publishing at the Bodley Head (Georgetown University Press, 1990), which combine book history with cultural history. Her next book, Oscar Wilde, New Women, the Bodley Head and Beyond is forthcoming from Rivendale Press in 2008.
She has published more than one hundred essays and reviews about 19th and 20th C. literature, film, publishing history, feminist pedagogy and politics, curatorial issues, and other aspects of culture in journals such as Victorian Studies, South Atlantic Quarterly, Victorian Periodicals Review, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Studies in the Humanities, Feminist Teacher, Studies in Popular Culture, Journal of Modern Literature, Women's Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Biography, Studies in American Humor, and Journal of Victorian Culture, as well as in edited volumes such as the Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siecle (2007) and Gender Violence, 2nd ed.(NYU Press, 2007). She has also co-curated numerous exhibitions on gender, art, and publishing history at venues such as the National Gallery of Art Library, Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and Bryn Mawr College.