Judith Wilt
Newton College Alumnae Professor Emerita
Judith Wilt
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S454
Telephone: 617-552-3702
Email: judith.wilt@bc.edu
Education
- Duquesne University, BA
- Indiana University, Ph.D.
Department
Biography
Judith Wilt worked full time as a journalist during her college years at Duquesne University and holds a PhD in English from Indiana University.听 She taught at Princeton before coming to Boston College in 1978, where she was a founding member of the Women鈥檚 Studies Program, chair of the English Department in the 1990鈥檚, and became the Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture in 2002.听 She teaches and writes on nineteenth century British fiction, women writers, religion and literature, and popular culture genres, with a newer interest in Neo-Victorian studies.
She retired in 2011, teaches one course a year, and is currently secretary of the 精东影业 Association of Retired Faculty.
Publications
Books
- Women Writers and the Hero of Romance (Palgrave Macmillan; 2014)
- Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward听, University of Virginia Press; 2005)
- Abortion, Choice, and Contemporary Fiction: The Armageddon of the Maternal Instinct,听University of Chicago Press; 1990)
- Secret Leaves: The Novels of Walter Scott (University Of Chicago Press; 1985)
- Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot and Lawrence,听Princeton University Press; 1980)
- The Readable People of George Meredith,听Princeton University Press
Essays (selected)
- "Wuthering Heights" in the听Twilight听Universe" in听Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature: 134 (winter 2018), 274-88.
- 鈥淐annibal and Transcendence Narratives in Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, and Interview with the Vampire in The Journal of Neo-Victorian-Studies (online) 9:1 (2016), 74-97,
- 鈥淩eading the Arts in the Bronte Fiction,鈥� in A Companion to the Brontes, ed. Diane Long Hoeveler and Deborah Denenholz Morse. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), 453-470.
- 鈥淓rnest in Town and Jacques in the Country: Wildean Perspectives on A Tale of Two Cities in Dickens Quarterly 30:3 (June 2013), 123-30.
- 鈥淯nending: Acts of Retrieval in Pearl, Gilead, and The Year of Magical Thinking in Literature and Belief 31:1 (June 2011), 1-21.
- 鈥淩epositioning the Bodies: Peter Ackroyd鈥檚 The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein and other Monstrous Retellings,鈥� in 21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000. (Scarecrow Press, 2011), 72-83.
- 鈥淏谤辞苍迟别鈥檚 Shirley: Reflections on Marrying Moores,鈥� in Victorian Literature and Culture 30:1 (March 2002), 1-19.
- 鈥淒own Here in Paradise: Toni Morrison鈥檚 Americas,鈥� in Tracy Fessenden Ed., The Puritan Origins of American Sex (Routledge, 2000), 273-292.
- 鈥淭he Romances of Ayn Rand,鈥� in Mimi Gladstein and Chris M. Sciabarra Eds. Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Penn State Univ. Press, 1999), 173-198.
- 鈥淕od鈥檚 Spies: The Knower in Woolf鈥檚 The Waves,鈥� in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 92:2 (April 1993), 180-199.
- 鈥淗e Would Come Back: The Fathers of Daughters in Daniel Deronda,鈥� in Nineteenth Century Literature 42:3 (December 1987), 313-338.
- 鈥淭he Imperial Mouth: Imperialism, the Gothic, and Science Fiction,鈥� in The Journal of Popular Culture XIV:4 (1981), 618-28.
- 鈥淣otes on the Collision between Comedy and Feminism,鈥� in Gender and Literary Voice: Women & Literature I, (1980), ed. Janet Todd, 173-196.
- 鈥淐onfusion and Consciousness in Dickens鈥� Esther,鈥� in Nineteenth Century Fiction 32:3 (December 1977), 285-309.
- 鈥淗e Could Go No Farther: A Modest Proposal about Lovelace and Clarissa,鈥� in PMLA 92 (January 1977), 19-32.
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Recent Courses
Undergraduate
- EN 308 Detective Stories - Course syllabus
- ENGL 3003 Horror Stories -听Course syllabus
- ENGL 3004 Storytelling and Catholicism -听Course syllabus
- ENGL 2225 War Stories - Course syllabus
- ENGL 3324 Great Adaptations - Course syllabus
- ENGL 3010 Spy Stories - Course syllabus
Previous Courses
Undergraduate
- EN 354 - The Novels of Dickens -听
- EN 481 - Woolf/Hemingway -听
- EN 584 - Seminar: Science Fiction: Past Futures -听
- EN 599 - Ayn Rand and Her Contemporaries: A Readings and Research Course
Graduate
- EN 827 - Master Narratives/Fielding to Lessing