DeKoven, Marianne

Marianne DeKoven
Professor Emerita of English
At Rutgers Since: 1977
Retired Since: 2014
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Primary Areas of Specialization: Gender and Sexuality; Modernist Literature; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
Book(s):

A Different Language: Gertrude Stein's Experimental Writing

Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism

Three Lives and Q.E.D.

Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern
Bio: Professor DeKoven is the author of Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern (2004), Rich and Strange: Gender History, Modernism (1991), and A Different Language: Gertrude Stein's Experimental Writing (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 (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 Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Award for Excellence in Research.
Education: PhD, Stanford University MA, Stanford University BA, Radcliffe University

Curriculum Vitae

Other Publications

"Introduction: Graphic Narrative"
Co-Authored with Hillary Chute. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 52.4, Winter 2006
"Psychoanalysis and Sixties Utopianism"
JPCS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society 8.2, Fall 2003
"Cultural Dreaming and Cultural Studies"
NLH: New Literary History 27.1, Winter 1996
"The Politics of Modernist Form"
NLH: New Literary History 23.3, Summer 1992

Awards and Distinctions

Perkins Prize for Best Book on Narrative Literature in 2004, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 2005
The Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University, 2005
The Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rutgers University, 2003

Other Information of Interest

"Rebecca L. Walkowitz: New Faculty Profile" by Marianne DeKoven
(Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 2)
"The Preacher's Footing" by Marianne DeKoven (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)
New Traditions: Graduate Program Launches Two New Lecture Series by Marianne DeKoven (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)
Marianne DeKoven Wins Teaching Award for 2003

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