Expertise: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British Literature, The British Novel, Women Writers
B.A. in English, Oklahoma State University; M.A., Ph.D. in English, University of Connecticut
Servants in Literature, Literature of the Industrial Revolution, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell, Women’s Literature
Julie Nash has been teaching British literature and writing at UMass Lowell since 2002. She is the editor of two collections of essays, New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte (Ashgate Publishing, 2001, co-edited with Barbara Suess) and New Essays on Maria Edgeworth (Ashgate Publishing, 2006). She has published articles on the British authors Aphra Behn, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Fay Weldon, and she was a recent guest editor for a special issue on servants and literature of the journal Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Her new book, Servants and the Problem of Paternalism in Novels by Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell, will be published in 2007. She is currently writing an article on the factory literature of Lowell and Manchester, England. Dr. Nash is also the Director of the Gender Studies Program.
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