Gender and Women's Studies

Stephanie Foote

Stephanie Foote is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies, and an affiliate of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.  She specializes in 19th and 20th –century U.S. literature and culture.  In 2001, she published  Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature and is completing a manuscript on class ambition in the late nineteenth century.  Her next two projects are book-length studies, the first of which examines twentieth-century lesbian print cultures, the second of which studies the global circulation of garbage, especially the various kinds of waste generated by unequal information economies.

Selected Publications

Editor of Ann Aldrich’s  We Walk Alone Through Lesbos’ Lonely Groves (1955).  (New York: Feminist Press, 2006). 

Editor of Ann Aldrich’s We, Too, Must Love (1956).  (New York: Feminist Press, 2006).  

“The Little Brothers of the Rich:  Queer Families in the Late Nineteenth Century.” American Literature.  Forthcoming December 2007 (79:4): 701-724.

“Bookish Women: Gendering Print and Material Culture” Invited response for American Literary History.  Spring 2007 (19:2): 521-526.

“Deviant Classics: Pulps and the Making of Lesbian Print Culture.”  Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society.  Autumn 2005 (39:1): 169-190.

“Henry James and the Parvenus: Reading Taste in The Spoils of Poynton.” The Henry James Review.  Winter 2006  (27:1): 42-60. 

“Resentful Little Women: Class and Gender Feeling in Louisa May Alcott.” College Literature.  Winter 2005 (32:1): 63-85. 

“Education and Polemic,” Blackwell’s Companion to American Fiction before 1865, ed. Shirley Samuels  (London: Blackwell 2004): 97-107.

"Ethnic Plotting: Henry Harland and the Jewish Writer." American Literature.  March 2003 (75:1): 119-140.

“The Cultural Work of American Regionalism.” Blackwell’s Reader in Regional Literatures of the United States, ed. Charles L. Crow (London: Blackwell 2003): 25-40.

“Making Sport of Tonya: Class Desire and Social Punishment.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues.  February, 2003: 3-17.

"The Working Conditions of Ethical Teaching."  Concerns: The Journal of the Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association.  Spring 2000 (27: 1 &2): 59-73.

"Marvels of Memory: Citizenship and Ethnic Identity in Abraham Cahan's 'The Imported Bridegroom.'" MELUS.  Summer 2000 (25:1): 33-53.

"The Value of Regional Identity: Labor, Representation, and Authorship in Hamlin Garland."  Studies in American Fiction. Fall 1999 (27:2): 159-182.

"'I Feared to Find Myself a Foreigner': Revisiting the Region in Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs.”  Arizona Quarterly. Summer 1996 (52:2): 37-61.