Helena Feder is a New Englander who has come to North Carolina via years in England and many years in California. She loves all things good of their kind (as Ashbery has written): travel, poetry, painting, pottery, food, and wine. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the Modern Language Association, and has published articles in The Greening of Literary Scholarship and Women's Studies. She joined the faculty in Fall 2006.


Degrees
B.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst
M.A. Boston College
Ph.D. University of California at Davis


Areas of Interest
Ecocriticism and Critical Theory
Literature and Environment
American Romanticism


Courses Taught
4540: Special Topics Seminar
3330: Women In Literature
3020: History of American Literature to 1900
2000: Interpreting Literature


Selected Publications and Presentations
“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. Stephen Rosendale, Iowa City: Iowa UP, 2002 (reprinted in paperback, 2002).