Elizabeth Hirsh
Associate Professor

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Office: CPR 301B
Phone: 813/974-9481
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Bio

Elizabeth Hirsh completed her A.B. at Brown University, M.A. at the University of Chicago, and Ph.D. at the University of Wisonsin-Madison. Before coming to USF in 1992 she taught at Swarthmore College and the University of Wisconsin, and served as Outreach Coordinator for the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium. Hirsh specializes in modern and contemporary literature, with an emphasis on women writers, and in literary and cultural theory, with an emphasis on psychoanalysis. Her articles have appeared in ELH, Literature and Psychology, Contemporary Literature, and Hypatia, among other periodicals, and in the anthologies Discontented Discourses: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (Illinois), H.D.: Signets (Wisconsin), Engaging With Irigaray (Columbia), and Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory (Michigan). Her MLA presentations include papers on Luce Irigaray, Djuna Barnes, Kathy Acker, and Wyndham Lewis. She is co-author, with Gary Olson, of Women Writing Culture (SUNY P, 1995). Most recently, she published "Mrs. Dalloway's Menopause: Encrypting the Female Life Course" (forthcoming at <http:www.csub/woolf_center>) and "Roger Fy and the National Identity: Life Writing as Spatial Historiography" in Mapping the Self: Space, Identity, Discourse in British Auto/Biography, ed. F. Regard (Publications de l'Universite' de Saint-Etienne, 2003). These most recent publications reflect her current research project on the relationship between biography, historiography and fiction in the work of Virginia Woolf. Hirsh has served as major professor for doctoral dissertations on Angela Carter; Virginia Woolf; Sharon Olds; Fay Weldon; the contemporary women's Kunstleroman; and the role of empathy in contemporary American memoir.

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Specialty Area

Modern & postmodernism; feminist studies; biography & life writing

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