Theresa Braunschneider
Associate Professor of English
Department of
English
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8762
email: braunt@wlu.edu
Education
Ph.D., English & Women's Studies, University of
Michigan, 2002
M.A., English, University of Michigan,
1998
B.A., English, summa cum laude, Kalamazoo
College, 1993
Research
Interests
Restoration and
eighteenth-century British literature and
culture; history of sexuality and gender;
feminist theory; history of feminist
thought
Teaching
English
105—Composition and Literature
English 251—British Literature in an
Age of Global Expansion
English 261—Reading Gender
English 333—Studies in Restoration
and Early 18th-Century Literature
English 334—Studies in Later
18th-Century Literature
English 335—Eighteenth-Century British Novels
English 358—Literature by Women
Before 1800
Interdepartmental 120—Introduction
to Women's Studies and Feminist Theory
Interdepartmental 396—Capstone in
Women's Studies
Seminar
and Capstone Topics
Literary Passing (Winter 2008)
Aphra Behn in Context (Fall
2007)
Early
Eighteenth-Century Poetry: Pope and
Finch (Spring 2005)
Subjects and Objects: Literature
and Consumer Culture, 1660 and Beyond
(Winter 2005)
Women and Marriage in Feminist Thought
(Fall 2004)
Restoration Bad Boys (Fall 2003)
England's 'Others': Imagining
Difference in the Eighteenth Century
(Fall 2002)
Recent Fellowships
Frank Hideo Kono Fellow & Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Huntington Library (Summer 2006)
Jessie Ball duPont Fellow, National Humanities Center (2005-2006)
Selected
Publications
Book
Our Coquettes: Capacious Desire in the Eighteenth Century. Winner of the 2007 Walker Cowen Prize in Eighteenth-Century Studies. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, forthcoming
in 2009.
Articles and Reviews
“The People that Things Make:
Coquettes and Consumer Culture.” Forthcoming in
Refiguring the Coquette, eds. Yael Schlick and
Shelley King (Bucknell UP, 2008).
“The Lady
and the Lapdog: Mixed Ethnicity in
Constantinople,
Fashionable Pets in
Britain.” In Humans
and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century
British Culture: Representation, Hybridity,
Ethics, ed. Frank Palmeri
(Ashgate Press, 2006): 31-48.
“Acting the Lover: Gender and
Desire in Narratives of Passing Women.” In The
Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation 45.3 (Fall 2004): 211-29.
Book review of
Ellen Pollak, Incest and the English
Novel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
UP, 2003). Tulsa Studies in
Women's Literature 23.2 (Fall 2004).
Book review of Joan Douglas
Peters, Feminist Metafiction and the
Evolution of the British Novel (Gainesville:
U of Florida P, 2002). Tulsa Studies
in Women’s Literature 21.2 (Fall
2002): 407-409.
“The
Macroclitoride, the Tribade, and the
Woman: Configuring Gender and Sexuality
in English Anatomical Discourse.” Textual
Practice 13.3 (1999): 513-536.
Assistant to
Valerie Traub, bibliography on “Recent Studies in
Homoeroticism.” English Literary
Renaissance 30.2 (2000): 284-329.
Work
in Progress
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