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Shires Presents Keynote Address

By On December 3, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor and chair of the English department at Stern College for Women, offered a keynote address for the International Thomas Hardy Society Conference and Festival, which ran from July 14-21, 2018, in Dorchester, England. (The conference was the 50th anniversary […]

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Shires Will Address Thomas Hardy Conference in July

By On February 23, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, chair of the English department at Stern College for Women, and head of the humanities division, will give a plenary address at the 23rd international Thomas Hardy Society Biennial conference in Dorchester, England on July 17, celebrating Fifty Years of the Society. […]

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Shires Delivers Two Lectures at the MLA

By On January 12, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Stern College for Women, delivered two talks at the January 4-7 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City.

She spoke on “Travelling into the Unexpected with J.M.W. Turner and William Thackeray” for […]

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Shires Reviews Book on Kipling’s Father

By On November 21, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and chair of the department of English at Stern College for Woman, will post a review of John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London (Yale University Press 2017) in […]

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Shires Delivers Lecture at Victorian Studies Conference

By On November 29, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and chair of the English department at Stern College for Women, spoke on November 3, 2016, at the North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on “Nineteenth-Century Reforms in Fine Arts Observing.”

Her talk […]

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Shires Publishes Essays, Edits Volume

By On August 16, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College, recently edited and wrote the preface for Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepflmacher (Ohio State University Press), a volume which offers a new perspective on the publishing career of her husband, a leading critic […]

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Shires Elected Member of International Association of University Professors of English

By On June 22, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College for Women, whose field is 19th c. British Literature and Culture, has been elected as a member of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE). Nominated by colleagues in her field from three U.K. […]

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Shires Delivers Lecture at Midwest Victorian Studies Conference

By On May 7, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College for Women, was honored to deliver the Jane Stedman Plenary Lecture on May 1 at the Midwest Victorian Studies Conference, held in Iowa City. The conference topic was “Victorian Sense and the Senses,” treated from aesthetic, […]

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Shires Appointed to Advisory Committee of PMLA

By On April 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda Shires, Ruth and David Gottesman Professor and Chair of Stern College for Women‘s English Department at Yeshiva University, has been appointed to the Advisory Committee of PMLA for a three-year term, representing Victorian literature, starting in July 2014. This is the scholarly journal of the Modern Language Association, the principal professional association […]

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Shires Speaks at 2013 North American Victorian Studies Association Conference

By On November 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda M. Shires, Gottesman Professor and Chair of English at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, delivered a lecture at the 2013 North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, held in Pasadena, Cal. from October 23-27. Titled “Media Poetics: Hardy’s Wessex Poems,” the talk was about multi-sensory, embodied reading. Shires also chaired a panel, […]

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