Stephanie Foote is the Jackson and Nichols Professor of English[1] at West Virginia University. A noted scholar of American literature specializing in environmental humanities of the 19th and 20th centuries,[2] Foote was previously Professor of English, Gender and Women's Studies, and Critical Theory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she had taught since 1994. Foote is the cofounder and editor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.[3]
Foote is the author of numerous books including The Parvenu's Plot: Gender, Class, and Culture in The Age of Realism, and Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. She has edited Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice and republished two non-fiction books (with new forewords) written by Ann Aldrich in the 1950s on lesbian life in New York City.
Foote received her BA from Oberlin College and her PhD from University of Buffalo.[4] Foote was a fellow at the National Humanities Center from 2017 to 18, and is working on a book on the relationship between garbage and narrative, The Art of Waste.[5] In May 2018 she was named a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship[6]
References
edit- ^ "Stephanie Foote - Department of English - West Virginia University". English.wvu.edu. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ "Stephanie Foote (West Virginia University), "The Life-Changing Garbage of Tidying Up" (Americanist Colloquium)". Yale University. Yale. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ Project Muse. "Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities". Project Muse Journals. Nebraska Press. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "Stephanie Foote | West Virginia University - Academia.edu".
- ^ "Stephanie Foote, "The Art of Waste: Garbage, Narrative, and the Environmental Humanities" - National Humanities Center". Archived from the original on 2018-05-21. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
- ^ WVU Today. "WVU English professor awarded prestigious Carnegie fellowship". WVU news. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
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