Beverly Haviland

Senior Lecturer and Visiting Associate Professor, American Civilization. Concentration Advisor:
American Civilization
Phone: +1 401 863 1612
Beverly_Haviland@Brown.EDU

Beverly Haviland works in19th-century American, English and French literature, 20th-century American literature and film, cultural history, and feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene and essays on various literary and cultural topics, including two that have won prizes: one treats Bret Easton Ellis as a novelist of manners and the other is on the accusation of plagiarism that ended Nella Larsen's brilliant and brief career.

Biography

Beverly Haviland (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1982, Comparative Literature) is Visiting Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in American Civilization. She works in nineteenth-century American, English and French literature, twentieth-century American literature and film, cultural history, trauma studies, and feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene and essays on various literary and cultural topics, including two that have won prizes: one treats Bret Easton Ellis as a novelist of manners and the other is on the accusation of plagiarism that ended Nella Larsen's brilliant and brief career. Her current research is on the representation of childhood sexual abuse in literature. In 2003-2004 she was a Faculty Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women in a seminar whose topic was "Shame."

Interests

Beverly Haviland's research interests are 19th-century American, English and French literature, 20th-century American literature and film, cultural history, and feminist and psychoanalytic theory. Her current research is on the representation of child sexual abuse in literature. In 2003-2004 she was a Faculty Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women in a seminar whose topic was "Shame."

Degrees

(Ph.D., Princeton University, 1982, Comparative Literature)

Awards

2003-2004: Faculty Fellow, Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women, Brown University

1999: University Learning Communities Teaching Fellow, NYS/UUP PDQWL Continuing Faculty Development Grant

1998: The Margaret Church Memorial Prize ($200), Modern Fiction Studies for "Passing from Paranoia to Plagiarism: The Abject Authorship of Nella Larsen"

1997: National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant ($25,000) for New American Studies at Stony Brook (co-author)

1997-1998: Stony Brook Academy of Teacher-Scholars Grant ($10,000 for group project)

1990: Faculty Center Fellowship, Vassar College ($1,000 for "Dilemmas of Person and Property")

1989: The John H. McGinnis Award ($1,000), The Southwest Review for "Minimal Manners, or The Novel of Manners in an Age with Few"

1987-1988: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship ($25,000) for Henry James's Sense of the Present (retitled: Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene)

1985: American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid ($1,500) for research on James manuscripts at Houghton Library, Harvard University

1975-1981: Princeton University Fellowship

Affiliations

American Studies Association

Modern Language Association

Teaching

Professor Haviland teaches several advanced seminars and survey courses focused on American literature, its cultural context and feminist and psychoanalytic theory. Some recent courses include"Trauma and the Shame of the Unspeakable: the Holocaust, American Slavery, and Childhood Sexual Abuse;" "Public Memory: Narratives of 9/11," "Women/Writing/Power: American Women's Writing and Feminist Literary Theory", and "Henry James Goes to the Movies" which studies film adaptations of several of James's novels and novellas, and "What Does a Woman Want?": Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Desire."

Funded Research

2005-2006: Departmental Research Funds, Office of the Vice President for Research, $2000

2004-2005: ITG Grant

2003-2004: Departmental Research Funds, Office of the Vice President for Research, $2000

1997: National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant ($25,000) for New American Studies at Stony Brook (co-author)

1987-1988: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship ($25,000) for Henry James's Sense of the Present (retitled: Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene)

Curriculum Vitae

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