Biography

Ph. D. in English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

MA in English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

BA. in English, Cornell University

 

Teaching Interests

Nancy L. Paxton, Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, women's writing, feminist theory, colonial and post-colonial literature, and women’s autobiography.

 

Her publications include:

Writing under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947 (Rutgers, 1999), which surveys popular literature about India as well as better known works like Kipling's Kim and Forster's A Passage to India. She is also the author of George Eliot and Herbert Spencer: Feminism, Evolutionism, and the Reconstruction of Gender (Princeton, 1989). 

 

She has co-edited a collection of essays with Lynne Hapgood, called Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the British Novel, 1900-1930 (Palgrave, 2000). She has published more than twenty essays on Victorian and Modernist fiction in scholarly journals and edited collections, including recent essays on Rebecca West’s The Judge, and on D. H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo.  Her essay, “From Cosmopolitan Romance to Transnational Fiction: Reading Jean Devanny’s Australian Novels,” will appear in Penny Russell, Desley Deacon, and Angela Woollacott, eds. Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World. Canberra: ANU E-Press, forthcoming, Fall 2008.

 

She is currently working on a book-length project on literary censorship which will focus on novels by D. H. Lawrence, Radclyffe Hall, and the New Zealand/ Australian writer, Jean Devanny. 

Nancy L. Paxton