Ruth Perry (literary scholar)

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Ruth Anna Perry (born Ruth Opler, April 5, 1943 , in Portland , Oregon ) is an American literary scholar and women's researcher. She is Professor Emeritus of Literary Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Life

Ruth Opler is a daughter of the social psychologist Marvin Opler . She married Lewis Curtis Perry in 1962, with whom she has a son, and her second marriage was to the literary scholar Taylor Stoehr (1931-2013).

Perry studied at Cornell University and after graduation in 1963 made an MA in physiological psychology in 1965. At the University of California, Santa Cruz , she received her PhD in 1974 in literature. She began her academic career in 1964 at Ithaca College , Ithaca, NY , as a teaching assistant in child psychology. In 1972 she went to MIT, where she became assistant professor of literature in 1973, and in 1980 she became senior lecturer there. At MIT, she founded the Women's Studies program in 1983 and the Boston Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies in 1992.

Perry researches eighteenth-century English literature and the role of socio-economic foundations in women's authorship. She has published on authors such as Jane Austen , Alexander Pope , Laurence Sterne and Samuel Richardson , but also on contemporary authors such as Grace Paley and Mary Gordon . She rediscovered the early feminist Mary Astell and wrote a major monograph on her. She edited a new edition of Charlotte Lennox ' Henrietta . She worked on the 18th century ballad collector and singer Anna Gordon and has already published a volume Ballads and Songs in the Eighteenth Century . In addition to her editorships and monographs, she has published more than twenty articles and reviews in literary journals. She described her own political stance as feminist and anarchist.

Perry has received a variety of grants, awards, and research funding, including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1964. She received an award from the Bunting Institute (1978), the American Council of Learned Societies , the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio , she was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1987, and received research funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1980) and the National Science Foundation (1984).

In 2000 she was elected President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She was a member of the advisory board of the literature organizations "PMLA" (Publications of the Modern Language Association), "The Women's Review of Books" and "Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature". She is also a member of the Modern Language Association of America and Phi Beta Kappa .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Susan Carlile (Ed.): Charlotte Lennox : Henrietta , University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 2008.
  • Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Culture and Literature 1748-1818 . Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004
  • Home at Last: Biographical Background to Pride and Prejudice , in: Marcia Folsom (Ed.): Approaches to Teaching Austen's Pride and Prejudice . 1993
  • Colonizing the breast: sexuality and maternity in eighteenth-century England , in: Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 2, No. 2, Oct. 1991, pp. 204-234
  • Interrupted Friendships in Jane Austen's Emma , in: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (1986)
  • The celebrated Mary Astell: an early English feminist . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986 NYT review
  • Ed .: George Ballard : Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain, who have been celebrated for their writings or skill in the learned languages, arts and sciences. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1985
  • with Martine Watson Brownley (Ed.): Mothering the Mind: Twelve Studies of Writers and Their Silent Partners . New York: Holmes & Meier, 1984
  • Austen and Empire: A Thinking Woman's Guide to British Imperialism , in: Persuasions (1994)
  • Women, Letters, and the Novel . New York: AMS Press, 1980

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruth Perry, biographical information from Contemporary Authors , Gale, 2009. [Status 2008]
  2. ↑ Lewis Curtis Perry ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , * 1938, vita @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historians.org
personal data
SURNAME Perry, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perry, Ruth Anna (full name); Opler, Ruth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar and women's researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Oregon