English Department

Judith Wilt

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

Judith Wilt

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.

Curriculum Vitae


Fall 2009 Courses

Undergraduate


Previous Courses

Undergraduate
  • EN 370 Catholic Character/s in Fiction and Film
  • EN 481 Woolf/Hemingway
  • EN 599 Ayn Rand and Her Contemporaries: A Readings and Research Course

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Graduate

EN 827 Master Narratives/Fielding
to Lessing

Selections from:
Introduction and Conclusion of
Michael McKeon
The Origins of the English Novel
1600-1740 (1987)

 

 

 

 


Publications

 

Behind Her TimesMaking HumansAbortion, Choice, and Comtemporary Fiction

 

Secret LeavesGhosts of the GothicThe Readable People of George Meredith