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Marianne DeKoven
Professor of English
Contact Information
Office: Murray Hall, 203A
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: marianne.dekoven@gmail.com
Telephone: (732) 932-3139
Office Hours:

Monday and Wednesday 3-4 pm

Specialization
Modernism and Postmodernism, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature and Culture,
Gender Theory and Criticism
Biography

B.A., Radcliffe College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford. 

Professor DeKoven is the author of  Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern  (Duke University Press, 2004; winner of the Perkins Award from the Society of Narrative Literature), Rich and Strange: Gender History, Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1991; Choice Award), and A Different Language: Gertrude Stein’s Experimental Writing (University of Wisconsin Press, 1983). She is also the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives (2006), and of Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice (Rutgers University Press, 2001). She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, on a range of topics including modernism, postmodernism, gender, feminist theory, and twentieth-century fiction. She is currently working on a book project on gender, ethics, and animals in modern and postmodern fiction. Professor DeKoven is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, was the Principal Investigator for a Rockefeller Residency Fellowship at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, and is the recipient of the Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Award for Excellence in Research.

Publications
Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice
Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught

Modern Novel

American Literature of the 1920's

Fiction by Women

Feminist Critical Theory

Modernist Narrative

Modernism

Contemporary Fiction

 
 
 
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