Marianne Novy
Professor of English
412-624-6516 (w)
mnovy@pitt.edu
CL 517-A
Marianne Novy is the author of Reading Adoption - Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama, Love's Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare and Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot and Other Women Novelists. She has edited four anthologies: Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare: On the Responses of Dickinson, Woolf, Rich, H.D., George Eliot, and Others; Cross-Cultural Performances: Differences in Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare; Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women's Re-Visions in Literature and Performance: and Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture.
Her current research is on outsiders in Shakespeare. During the academic year 2006-2007, she will be on sabbatical and will be a Visiting Scholar at Duke. She encourages emails to be sent to her at mnovy@pitt.edu.
She is on the steering committees of the Women's Studies Program, the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program and adoption in literature.
Professor Novy is interested in working individually with students on topics such as adoption literature, Shakespeare, and women writers of the early modern period and 19th-20th century. Graduate students who would like to teach Shakespeare are especially urged to contact her
Teaching
Graduate Courses
- Literature of Adoption
- Renaissance Discourses of Gender
- Shakespeare
- Historical Discourses of Gender
- Victorian Women Novelists
Undergraduate Courses
- Introduction to Shakespeare
- Women and Shakespeare - Syllabus / Supplemental Reading
- Renaissance in England
- Women Novelists
- Contemporary American Women Writers
- Board of Trustees Shakespeare Association of America
- Delegate Assembly MLA
- Chair, Pedagogy and Difference Committee
- Founding Co-Chair, Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity, and Kinship [in Literature]
- Member, Women's Studies Core Faculty and Steering Committee
- Steering Committee Member, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
