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Department of English
"I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar."
(Benjamin Disraeli)
Dr. Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
Department of English
Office: Hartwell 209B
(585)395-5827; Fax (585)395-2391
Email: mburstei@brockport.edu
Education:
B.A., University of California-Irvine, 1992
M.A., University of Chicago, 1993
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1997
Awards and Honors:
UUP Individual Development Grants, 2000, 2001, 2006
Scholarly Incentive Grant, 2000, 2004, 2005
Mellon Fellow of the Huntington Library, July 1999
Mellon Fellow in Humanities, 1992-1997
Mellon Summer Pre-Dissertation Grants, 1995, 1996
Marcia Tillotson Travel Grants, 1996, 1997
Summa cum laude, 1992
National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar, 1991
Phi Beta Kappa, 1991
Gloria Schick Gellman Founder's Prize, Outstanding Senior Thesis, 1992
Howard Babb Memorial Essay Prize, 1992
University Scholarship, University of California-Irvine, 1988-1992
Campuswide Honors Program, University of California-Irvine, 1988-92
Publications:
Narrating Women's History in Britain, 1770-1902. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
"'The Reduced Pretensions of the Historic Muse': Agnes Strickland and the Commerce in Women's History." Journal of Narrative Technique 28 (1998): 219-42.
"`From Good Looks to Good Thoughts': Popular Women's History and the Invention of Modernity, c. 1830-c. 1870." Modern Philology 97 (1999): 46-75.
"'Unstoried in History'? Early Histories of Women at the Huntington Library, 1652-1902." Huntington Library Quarterly 64 (2001): 469-500.
"'Not the Superiority of Belief, But Superiority of True Devotion': Grace Aguilar's Histories of the Spirit." In Silent Voices, ed. Brenda Ayres Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 1-27.
"Barbauld, Anna Letitia"; "Bulwer, Edward"; "Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan"; "Milman, Henry Hart"; "Biography." In Encyclopedia of British Literature, Eds. Steven Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myers. New York and London: Continuum, 2003.
"Protestants against the Jewish and Catholic Family, c. 1829-1860." Victorian Literature and Culture 31 (2003): 333-57.
“Reviving the Reformation: Victorian Women Writers and the Protestant
Historical Novel.” Women’s Writing 12 (2005): 73-84.
“Royal Lives”; “Women Worthies.” In A Companion to Women’s Historical Writing, eds. Mary Spongberg et al. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
“Counter-Medievalism; Or, Protestants Rewrite the Middle Ages.” In Beyond Arthurian Romances and Gothic Thrillers: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism. Ed. Lorretta Holloway and Jennifer A. Palmgren. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 147-68.
“The Historical Novel and Contemporary Criticism: A Survey, 1990-2004.” Choice 43.1 (September 2005): 45-58.
“How to Write a First Person Essay.” Chronicle of Higher Education 11 August 2006: C4.
“Sir Walter Scott: ‘The Highland Widow’.” A Companion to the British Short Story. Ed. Andrew Maunder. London and New York: Facts on File, 2006.
“Emily Sarah Holt and the Evangelical Historical Novel: Undoing Walter Scott.” Clio’s Daughters. Ed. Lynette Felber. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 154-78.
“The Fictional Afterlife of Anne Boleyn, 1901-2006: How to Do Things with the Queen.” Clio (Fall 2007): 1-26.
“Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry.” Handbook to Victorian Literature. Ed. Alexandra Warwick and Martin Willis (Continuum, forthcoming 2008).
“Anti-Catholic Sermons in England, 1820-1900.” A New History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century. Ed. Robert Ellison (E. J. Brill, forthcoming 2009).
Courses Taught:
Bibliography (MA seminar)
Study in Victorians: Victorian Fiction (MA seminar)
Victorian Fiction: George Eliot (mixed upper-division/MA seminar)
Seminar in British Writers: Victorian Poetry (mixed upper-division/MA seminar)
Seminar in British Writers: First-Person Narrators (mixed upper-division/MA seminar)
Seminar in British Writers: The Brontės
Seminar in American Writers: 20th Century Historical Fiction (mixed upper-division/MA seminar)
Victorians and Others (mixed upper-division/MA lecture)
Women in the Novel (mixed upper-divison/MA lecture)
Introduction to Literary Analysis (required skills course)
British Literature II (lower-division survey)
Literature and Culture (general education)
International Fiction (general education)
Honors Composition (first-year)
College Composition (first-year)
