Marah Gubar
Assistant Professor of English
Director of Children's Literature Program
412-624-6132
mjg4@pitt.edu
CL 628-G
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Marah Gubar teaches and writes about children's literature from a variety of periods, but she is especially interested in Victorian representations of childhood. Her publications include articles on Lewis Carroll, Juliana Ewing, E. Nesbit, Lucy Maud Montgomery, E.B. White, and Jack Gantos. She has just finished a book manuscript entitled Artful Dodgers: Re-Conceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature
(under contract with Oxford University Press). Her new project, The Anglo-American Cult of the Child, includes a chapter on the nineteenth-century vogue for child actors, as well as a chapter on adult Victorians’ habit of addressing one another in baby-talk.
Research and Publications: Her publications include articles on Lewis Carroll, Juliana Ewing, E. Nesbit, E. B. White, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Jack Gantos. She is currently at work on a book entitled Artful Dodgers: The Child as Collaborator in Victorian Children's Fiction. Her commentary on children's literature can occasionally be heard on National Public Radio.
Sample Undergraduate Courses
- ENGLIT 0560: Children and Culture
- ENGLIT 1175: Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- ENGLIT 1645: Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature
Sample Graduate Courses
- ENGLIT 2176: Nineteenth-Century British Novel
- ENGLIT 2230: Anglo-American Cultural Exchange
- New graduate course in children’s literature (forthcoming soon!)