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. 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
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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
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Member, Literature Curriculum Committee
