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Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, Ph.D
- Professor and Chair
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(585) 395-5827
mburstei@brockport.edu
Office: Liberal Arts 227
Education
- PhD, University of Chicago, 1997
- MA, University of Chicago, 1993
- BA, University of California-Irvine, 1992
Areas of Specialty
- Victorian studies
- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and intellectual history
- Literature and religion
- Historical ficton
- Neo-Victorianism
- The history of the historical novel
- Women writers
Academic Positions
- State University of New York, College at Brockport, Dept. of English (September 2005-present) Associate Professor
- State University of New York, College at Brockport, Dept. of English (September 1999-June 2005) Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Dept. of English (September 1998-May 1999) Lecturer (Full-time)
Conferences and Professional Activities
Conferences
- Central New York Conference on Language and Literature
- 18th & 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, Hystorical Fictions: Women, History and Authorship (University of Wales
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Midwest Victorian Studies Association
- Modern Language Association
- Neo-Victorian Cultures (Liverpool John Moores University)
- Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
- North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
- North American Victorian Studies Association
- Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
- Victorians Institute Conference
Professional Activities by Invitation
- “Liberty and Tyranny in the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1848,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Pasadena, Mar. 9-12, 2000.
Other Professional Activities
- Book Review Editor, Journal of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (2018- )
- Advisory board, Journal of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (2014-)
- Contributing Editor, Neo-Victorian Studies (launched 2007-08)