Judith Wilt

professor of english (newton college alumnae chair in western culture)

Judith Wilt has degrees from Duquesne University and Indiana University and taught at Princeton before coming to Boston College in 1978. She was a founding member of the Women's Studies Program, chair of the English Department from 1990-1996, and became the Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture in 2002. She teaches and writes on nineteenth century British fiction, women's writing, religion and literature, and popular culture genres, especially Gothic fiction. Recent courses and book length publications are listed below. Her current writing project is on women novelists and the heroes they create; her fall 2008 courses, with links below to syllabi and initial additional reading, are EN 082.09, a first year literature core course in Literature and Society, and EN 827, a graduate course called Master Narratives and the English Novel: Fielding to Lessing.

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