Terry Castle, Professor Primary Office: 460-313 At Stanford Since: 1983 Email: castle@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Modernism and The Literature of the First World War High Life and Low Life: Polite and Popular Forms in Eighteenth-Century Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Degrees: B.A. summa cum laude, University of Puget Sound, 1975 M.A. English, University of Minnesota, 1978 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1980 Titles: Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities Chair, English Department, 1997-2000 |
Terry Castle has taught eighteenth-century English literature at Stanford since 1983. She specializes in the history of the novel, especially the works of Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, and in the study of eighteenth-century popular culture. She has taught courses on Gothic fiction, women in eighteenth-century literature, psychoanalytic theory, opera, the literature of the First World War, and lesbian writing. She has written seven books: Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's 'Clarissa' (1982); Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction (1986); The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (1993); The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (1995), Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits (1996); Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women, Sex, and Writing (2002); and Courage, Mon Amie (2002). She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall(2003). Her essay on ""The Carnivalization of Eighteenth-Century English Narrative,"" published in PMLA, won the William Riley Parker Prize of the Modern Language Association in 1985; her essay ""Marie Antoinette Obsession"" won the Crompton-Noll Prize of the Lesbian and Gay Caucus of the Modern Language Association in 1993. In 1995 her book The Female Thermometer was a runner-up for the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the Art of the Essay. She writes regularly for the London Review of Books, the New Republic, and other magazines and journals. Links: |
