Ph.D. 1996 (English and Comparative Literature); M.A. 1990 (English), Columbia University; B.A. 1989 (English and Comparative Literature), Hunter College, CUNY.
Elaine Freedgood
Professor of English
Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel
American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women, 2001.
Department of Social & Cultural Analysis
I'm interested in the research imagination; archives broadly conceived--from letters in a box in a library to desk drawers, buildings, databases, landfills, and landscapes; peculiar histories of the novel; figures of prose like metonymy and metalepsis; contemporary global fiction; critical theory, especially Marxist, postcolonial and queer; Conceptual poetry, prose and visual art. Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Cambridge 2000) and The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel (Chicago 2006) are my books; my current project is called Worlds Enough: Fictionality and Reference in the Novel.
Publications
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Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.
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University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Cambridge University Press, 2000
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Worlds EnoughThe Invention of Realism in the Victorian NovelPrinceton University Press, 2019
Contact Information
Elaine Freedgood
Professor of English ef38@nyu.edu 244 Greene StreetRm 411
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-8814