Shirley Samuels
Professor
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D., M.A., B.A.
Bio
Shirley Samuels is currently Chair of the Department of the History of Art at Cornell as well as Professor of English and American Studies. Her books include Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2004); Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865 (editor) (Blackwell, 2004); Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation (Oxford University Press, 1996); and The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality (editor) (Oxford University Press, 1992). In addition to Cornell, she has taught at Princeton University, Brandeis University, and the University of Delaware.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Late 20th-Century Women Writers and Visual Culture
- Narratives of Mobility and Escape in Nineteenth-Century America
- Social and Sexual Constructions of Whiteness, Ethnicity, and Race
Current Projects
- Reading the American Novel, 1780-1865 (book under contract, Blackwell) The Limits of Translation: Women and Nations in Late 20th Century Culture