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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: ELAINE SHOWALTERadmin2022-10-21T11:30:39-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Elaine Showalter

“I Lived a Double Life for a Long Time.”

Professor. Author. Journalist. Literary Critic. Leading scholar of women’s literature. A “founding mother” of the practice of feminist literary criticism. Known for her conceptualization of gynocriticism, a woman-centric approach to literary analysis. Modern Language Association (MLA). President of the Central Jersey chapter of NOW. 

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, February 2020

Photo 1. Dr. Elaine Showalter, professor of English and president of the Central Jersey chapter of NOW leads a discussion at Douglass College on the women’s movement – 1970. 

Read the Transcript

More About Elaine:

  • Williams, Jeffrey J. “Rewriting Literary History: An Interview with Elaine Showalter.” symploke, vol. 20 no. 1, 2012, p. 355-370. Project MUSE
  • Elaine’s books on Amazon
  • Official Publisher Page – Simon & Schuster 
  • Elaine Showalter, “The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe” Politics & Prose
  • Elaine Showalter – New York State Writers Institute
  • Literary Review – book reviews by Elaine Showalter
  • On C-SPAN
  • Elaine’s papers
    • The Women’s Library at The London School of Economics and Political Science
    • Brown University – Feminist Theory Archive Collection
  • Select newspaper clippings 1970-1971

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