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| Harriet Davidson |
Associate Professor of English
Acting Dean, Douglass Residential College and Douglass Campus
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Contact Information |
| Office 1: |
College Hall 206 |
| Campus: |
Douglass, New Brunswick |
| Office 2: |
Murray Hall, 022 |
| Campus: |
College Ave, New Brunswick |
| Email: |
hardav@rci.rutgers.edu |
| Telephone: |
(732) 932-
9721 |
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| Specialization |
| twentieth-century literature; critical theory; poetry; literature by women; American literature and culture; feminist theory |
| Biography |
B.A., Texas (Austin); M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Professor Davidson is author of T. S. Eliot and Hermeneutics: Absence and Interpretation in "The Waste Land" (Louisiana State University Press, 1985), editor of the Longman Reader on T.S. Eliot (Longman Publishing Group, 1999), and the author of numerous articles on poetry, theory and feminism. She was Director of Women's Studies for six years, inaugurating in 2001 a new department and Ph.D. program in Women's and Gender Studies in 2001; and in 1997 she organized the Rutgers conference "Poetry and the Public Sphere." Her current work explores the cultural function of poetry, theories of witnessing, feminist aesthetic theories, and postmodernism. |
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| Undergraduate Courses Taught |
Graduate Courses Taught |
Modern Poetry
Poetry by Women
Feminist Theory
Contemporary American Poetry
Introduction to Literary Theory |
Close Reading
Introduction to Twentieth-Century Studies
Poetry and Postmodernism
Critical Theory
Introduction to Literary Theory
Later Twentieth-Century Poetry
The Criticism of Poetry |
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