Wendy C. Nielsen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
English Department
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ 07043
973-655-7960




Education:

Ph.D., UC Davis, 2001, Comparative Literature, Female Acts of Violence: French Revolutionary Theater in British and German Romantic Drama; Intermed. Cert. in Latin (das Latinum), December 1995, Georg August Universität, Göttingen, Germany; B.A., UCSD, March 1994, German Literature (magna cum laude)

Recent research:

Romantic Revolutions in Europe: Suggestions for Teaching Drama,” Romantic Pedagogy Commons, (May 2011)

“Boadicea Onstage before 1800, a Theatrical and Colonial History,” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 49.3 (Summer 2009): 595-614.

“Edmund Eyre’s The Maid of Normandy; or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish Docudrama” in Comparative Drama, vol. 40.3 (Fall 2006): 169-90.

“A Tragic Farce: Revolutionary Women in Elizabeth Inchbald’s The Massacre and European Drama,” European Romantic Review, vol. 17.3 (July 2006): 275-88.

“Staging Rousseau’s Republic: French Revolutionary Festivals and Olympe de Gouges” in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 43.3 (Fall 2003): 268-85. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, vol. 127 (New York: Thomson Gale, Aug. 2006), 79-89.

Classes at Montclair State University:


Graduate
Spring 2009, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Shaw
Fall 2009, Science Fiction
Fall 2007, Seminar in Literary Research: Methods (ENGL 605)
Fall 2004 and Spring 2007, Fall 2010 The Romantic Movement (ENLT 536)

Undergraduate
Spring 2010 and 2012, ENLT 336: European Romanticism
Spring 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Modern Drama: Ibsen to O’Neill (ENLT 375)
Fall 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011 Modern European Novel (ENLT 376)
Spring 2006, Fall 2007, Science Fiction (ENLT 378)
Fall & Spring 2005, 2006, Fall 2009, Fall 2011 World Literature: Coming of Age (ENLT 206)
Fall 2005, Women’s Worlds (WMST 102)
Spring 2005, 19th-Century English Romantic Literature (ENGL 346)
Fall 2003 & 2004, First-Year Honors Seminar (HON 102)
Spring 2004 & 2007, Art of Drama (ENGL 263)
Spring 2004 & 2006, College Writing II: Writing and Literary Study
Fall 2003 & 2006, College Writing I: Intellectual Prose