Miriam L. Wallace
Associate Professor of British & American Literature
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A., Swarthmore College
Professor Wallace teaches the British novel and Literary Theory, with a particular interest in feminist and gender theories. She has written on topics ranging from aesthetics and politics in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves to figurative aspects of British law in the 1794 London Treason Trial of the novelist Thomas Holcroft.
In 2002 she was awarded an NEH College Teachers Fellowship for her forthcoming book on Revolutionary Subjects in the English “Jacobin” Novel, 1790-1805, which examines the evolving citizen-subject in late eighteenth-century radical novels. Her edition of two novels—Mary Hays’s 1796 Memoirs of Emma Courtney and Amelia Alderson Opie’s 1804 Adeline Mowbray—was published in 2004. Professor Wallace is also interested in British travelers and their tales from the Grand Tour to the early Romantics.
Her course offerings include Rise of the Novel in Britain, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Romanticism and Revolution in the English Novel, Home and Empire in Victorian Literature, British Modernist Fictions, Critical Theory in the U.S., and Anglophone Feminist Theory. With Professor Van Tuyl (French), she won the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Shirley Bill Teaching Award for a co-taught course on “The French Revolution in the Cultural Imagination” in 1997.
Professor Wallace continues to publish on teaching and pedagogical issues and is currently co-editing an issue of the journal Romantic Pedagogy Circles on “Novel Prospects: Teaching the Romantic-era Novel.”
