Department of English

Marianne Novy

Professor of English

412-624-6516 (w)
mnovy@pitt.edu

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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. She encourages emails to be sent to her at mnovy@pitt.edu.

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 20h-21st century. Graduate students who would like to teach Shakespeare are especially urged to contact her

Teaching

Graduate Courses

  • Adoption and Culture
  • 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
  • Early Modern Literatures
  • Adoption Literature
  • Advanced Shakespeare
  • Women and Drama

Other Duties & Service

  • Delegate Assembly MLA
  • Founding Co-Chair, Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
  • Member, Women's Studies Core Faculty and Steering Committee
  • Steering Committee Member, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  • Director, Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies
  • Associate editor, Adoption and Culture
  • Member, Literature Curriculum Committee

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