Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace

Professor B.A., Trinity College Ph.D., Columbia University Carney Hall 455 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Phone: 617-552-3722 Fax: 617-552-4220 Email: kowalesk@bc.edu http://www2.bc.edu/~kowalesk

Academic Profile

Specializes in eighteenth century British literature and literary and feminist theory.

Courses

• EN081.13 - Literary Themes
• EN131.04 - Studies in Poetry
• EN313.01 - Rags and Riches
• EN465.01 - Feminist Literary Theory

Publications (selected)

• "Theatricality and Cosmopolitanism in Hanna Cowley's The Belle's Stratagem in Comparative Drama (Fall, 2002) : 415-433.
• "The Needs of Strangers: Friendly Societies and Insurance Societies in late 18th-Century England," Eighteenth Century Life, 24 (2000) : 53-72.
• "Telling Untold Stories: Phillippa Gregory's A Respectable Trade and David Dabydeen's A Harlot's Progress," Novel 33 (2000) : 235-252.
• "Reading the Surfaces of Colley Cibber's The Careless Husband," SEL, 40 (2000):
  473-489.
• Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the 18th Century (1997).
• Their Father's Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Patriarchal Complicity (1991).
• Co-editor, Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy (1990).

Additional Professional Information 

Professor KowaleskiWallace was the editor-in-chief of the Enclyclopedia of Feminist
Literary Theory.