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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: ecocriticism, environmental humanities, literature and science, cultural materialism, feminist theory, and nineteenth and twentieth-century American and British literature.
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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
ENGL 7265: American Literature Seminar
ENGL 6260: Twentieth-Century American Literature
ENGL 5060: Literary Theory and Criticism
ENGL 4540: Special Topics Seminar
ENGL 4370: Literature and Environment
ENGL 4200: Feminist Theory (WOST)
ENGL 3660: Representing Environmental Crisis
ENGL 3330: Women in Literature
ENGL 3020: History of American Literature to 1900
ENGL 2600: Great Books in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Revolution, Evoltion, mind, and "Man" (GRBK)
ENGL 2000: Interpreting Literature
Selected Publications
Books
Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman. Ashgate Press [Forthcoming, 2011].
Edited Collection:
Special Double-issue of Configurations 18.1-2 (Winter 2010).
Articles
"Ecocriticism, Posthumanism, and the Biological Idea of Culture." Invited for: The Oxford
Handbook of Ecocriticism. Ed. G. Garrard. Oxford University Press (Forthcoming 2011).
"Ecocriticism and Biology." Configurations 18.1-2 (Winter 2010).
"Rethinking Multiculturalism: Theory and Nonhuman Cultures."
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2010) 17 (4): 775-777.
"'A blot upon the earth': Nature's 'Negative' and the Production of Monstrosity in
Frankenstein." Journal of Ecocriticism 2.1 (January 2010).
"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
