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Helena Feder joined the faculty in Fall 2006. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the Modern Language Association. Dr. Feder is currently finishing a manuscript on ecocriticism and the biological idea of culture, forthcoming with Ashgate Press. She is particularly interested in working with graduate students on any of the following topics: literature and science, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, Frankfurt Theory, cultural materialism, and nineteenth and early twentieth-century Anglophone literatures.
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Degrees
B.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, summa cum laude
M.A. Boston College
Ph.D. University of California at Davis
Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Ecocriticism and Critical Theory
Literature, Science, and Environment
American and British Literature, nineteenth and twentieth-century
Courses Taught
7265: American Literature Seminar
4540: Special Topics Seminar
4370: Literature and Environment
4200: Feminist Theory (WOST)
3330: Women In Literature
3020: History of American Literature to 1900
2000: Interpreting Literature
Selected Publications
Books
Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman. Forthcoming, Ashgate Press 2011.
Articles
“Nature’s ‘Negative’ and the Production of Monstrosity.” Forthcoming, Journal of Ecocriticism, January 2010.
“Ecocriticism, Posthumanism, and the Biological Idea of Culture.” Invited for: The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. Ed. G. Garrard. Forthcoming, Oxford University Press 2010.
Introductory Essay, “Ecocriticism and the Life Sciences.” Guest Editor, special double-issue of Configurations. Forthcoming, 2010.
"Ecocriticism and the Animal: Cultural Biology and Cultural Studies." Ed. G. Woods. [accepted]
“Biogenetic Intervention (Or ‘gardening,’ Shakespeare, and the future of ecological thought).” Green Letters 9 (2008): 33-47.
“The Critical Relevance of the Critique of Rationalism: Postmodernism, Ecofeminism, and Voltaire’s Candide.” Women’s Studies 31 (2002): 199-219.
“Ecocriticism, New Historicism and Romantic Apostrophe.” The Greening of Literary Scholarship. Ed. Steven Rosendale, Iowa City: Iowa UP, 2002. (Reprinted in paperback)
Website Links
Graduate Literature Program
