Nina Baym

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Nina Baym (born on 14. June 1936 in Princeton , New Jersey as Nina Zippin , died on 15. June 2018 in Urbana , Illinois ) was an American literary scholar .

life and work

Baym studied at Cornell University ( BA 1957), Radcliffe College ( MA 1958) and Harvard University ( Ph.D. 1963). After receiving her doctorate, she began teaching in 1963 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In 1967 she became an assistant professor here, and in 1972 a full professor of English literature; 1976-1987 she was also director (director) of the Faculty of Humanities. In 2004 she retired.

Her work on American women's literature and the history of feminism , in particular , is widely received and made a decisive contribution to the opening and expansion of the canon of American literature . From 1985 Baym was co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature , the standard anthology of literature in English. In 2000, she received the Modern Language Association's Jay B. Hubbell Award for Lifetime Achievement .

She was married to the physicist Gordon Baym until 1970 and to the literary scholar Jack Stillinger since 1971 and died on June 15, 2018 in Urbana. Her children have also embarked on academic careers.

Works

  • The Shape of Hawthorne's Career . Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY 1976.
  • Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820–70 . Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY 1978. 2nd, expanded edition: University of Illinois Press, Urbana IL 1993.
  • Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America . Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY 1984.
  • American Women Writers and the Work of History . Rutgers University Press, Brunswick NJ 1995.
  • Feminism and American Liteary History: Essays . Rutgers University Press, Brunswick NJ 1992.
  • American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences . Rutgers University Press, Brunswick NJ 2002.
  • Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 . University of Illinois Press, 2011.

Web links

  • Nina Baym (Website of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neil Genzlinger : Nina Baym, Who Brought Novels by Women to Light, Dies at 82. In: New York Times . June 22, 2018, accessed June 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Baym, Nina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Princeton , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2018
Place of death Urbana , Illinois