Marah Gubar
Associate Professor of English
412-624-6132
mjg4@pitt.edu
CL 517-B
Marah Gubar is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Children’s Literature Program. She received a B.A. in English and a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1995, and a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University in 2002. She teaches and writes about children's literature from a variety of periods, but she is especially interested in Victorian and Edwardian representations of childhood and the history of children’s theatre.
Research and Publications: Her book Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (Oxford University Press, March 2009) was recently chosen as a Times Higher Education Book of the Week. She has also published articles on Lewis Carroll, Juliana Ewing, Lucy Maud Montgomery, E. B. White, and Jack Gantos. She is currently working on two new book projects: one focused on children’s theatre, the other on the Anglo-American cult of the child.
Awards and Distinctions:
- University of Pittsburgh Innovation in Education Award, 2004
- Children’s Literature Association Article Award, 2003
- University of Pittsburgh Third Term Research Grant, 2003
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1997-2002
- Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Teaching Award, 2000-2001
- Cotsen Junior Teaching Fellowship, 1999-2000
- EngLit 0505: Lectures in Literature
- EngLit 0560: Children and Culture
- EngLit 0562: Childhood’s Books
- EngLit 0655: Representing Adolescence
- EngLit 1175: Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- EngLit 1645: Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature
- EngLit 2800: Children’s Literature
- EngLit 2176: Nineteenth-Century British Novel
- EngLit 2230: Anglo-American Cultural Exchange
