Education

B.A., Duquesne University
Ph.D., Indiana University

Academic Profile

Specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British fiction, Victorian literature, Women's Studies, religion and literature, and popular-culture genres.

Courses

EN082.09- Literature and Society

EN827.01- Master Narratives and the English Novel

Publications (Selected)

• Behind Her Times: The Novels of Mary Arnold Ward (2005)
• Abortion, Choice, and Contemporary Fiction: The Armageddon of the Maternal Instinct (1991)
• Making Humans, a combined edition (with introduction and other materials) of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau (2002)
• "Bronte's Shirley: Reflections on Marrying Moores," Victorian Literature and Culture (March 2002)
• "Masques of the English in Barnaby Rudge," Dickens Studies Annual: 2000 (2001).
• Secret Leaves: The Novels of Walter Scott (1986)

Additional Professional Information

Judith Wilt is a founding member of the Women's Studies Committee at Boston College and has published essays and given papers recently on women writers as diverse as Ayn Rand, Toni Morrison, Georgette Heyer and Virginia Woolf.