Elizabeth Neiman
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Elizabeth Neiman is an Associate Professor in English and also the Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. Her research interests include British Romanticism, history of the novel, feminist theory, and questions concerning humanism and its alternatives. Her first book, Minerva’s Gothics: the Politics and Poetics of Romantic Exchange, 1785-1820 (2019), puts the work of popular Romantic-era novelists back into conversation with canonical writers, from William Wordsworth to Mary Wollstonecraft to Percy Shelley. She is working on a new book project titled Romantic Longings and the Novel, 1782-1861: Sensing Imagination’s Limits. Here, she hopes to illustrate that women writers of the Romantic period write novels that expose the racialized and gendered underpinnings of empathy as it was currently being defined as the capacity to feel for and with another, so as to reveal its prospects and limits—both in interpersonal relationships and in art.
Professor Neiman teaches introductory courses in both WGS and English, as well as upper-level and graduate courses in British Romanticism, the Victorian era, and feminist and queer theory. She also offers upper-level literature courses that are cross-listed with WGS and designed to draw in students from two disciplinary perspectives (both English and WGS). These courses focus on contemporary literature, by mostly cis and trans gender women, and with an intersectional lens of analysis.
Courses Taught
English 170;
Also courses in the following areas, at both the undergraduate and graduate level:
Romantic-era literature
Victorian literature
Gender Studies; feminist and queer theory
