Professor Karen Gevirtz
IAS Open Programme
Seton Hall University
Karen Bloom Gevirtz is professor of English, former co-director of Women and Gender Studies, and affiliated faculty with the Women and Gender Studies and Medical Humanities Programs at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, USA. She earned a BA in English from Brown University and a PhD in British Literature at Emory University, where her dissertation was nominated for the Lore Metzger Prize.
Professional achievements include Researcher of the Year in her college, fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Chawton House Library, two terms as executive president of the Aphra Behn Society, and editor of the Eighteenth Century section of Literature Compass. She has authored a number of academic chapters and articles, and three academic books: Life after Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen; Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727; and Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television, 2000-2015. She also co-edited Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660–1820 with Mona Narain.
At present, Professor Gevirtz is finishing a book entitled The Apothecary’s Wife, scheduled for publication by Head of Zeus Publishing in 2024, and editing ‘The History of the Nun’ for Cambridge University Press’s Works of Aphra Behn.