Nancy Glazener
Associate Professor of English
412-624-4282
glazener@pitt.edu
CL 501-L
Nancy Glazener’s scholarship and teaching focus on 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century U.S. literature, especially fiction. Her book Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910, was published in 1997 by Duke University Press in the New Americanists series.
Her interests include gender studies, reception theory, cultural materialism, psychoanalysis, the institutional history of literary studies, and the history of versions of personhood.
Her current book project, “Ethics at the Edge of Liberalism: The Arts of Moral Personhood in US Fiction,” identifies legalistic forms of ethical judgment as important adjuncts of liberal political traditions. “Ethics at the Edge of Liberalism” traces the significance of these legalistic models in many works of US fiction over the past 2 centuries but also identifies a range of other possibilities for moral personhood and ethical responsiveness that US novels have kept alive.
Teaching
Graduate Courses
- The Enlightenment and US Literature
- Ethics, Politics, and the Novel
- Literature and Hegemony
- Narratives of Postmodernity
- Feminist Literary Theory
- The Novel: Texts & Contexts
- James & Wharton
Undergraduate Courses
- Emergence of Modern America, 1865-1914
- Junior Seminar: Narratives of Slavery
- Introduction to Critical Reading
- American Literature to 1860
- American Literary Traditions
Other Duties & Service
- University Senate Budget Committee
- Literature Program Committee
- Graduate Procedures Committee
- Racial/Sexual Harassment Officer
- Member, London Semester Committee
- Member, Women's Studies Program Steering Committee
