FELBER, Lynette

PERSONAL:

Born in Chicago, IL. Education: Humboldt State University, B.A. (English; summa cum laude), B.A. (French), and M.A. (English); University of Nice, professorat (teaching French as a foreign language), 1978-79; University of Wisconsin at Madison, Ph.D. (English), 1987.

ADDRESSES:

Home—2102 Kensington Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46805. Office—Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499. E-mail—[email protected]; [email protected].

CAREER:

Educator and author. University of Wisconsin, Madison, postdoctoral lecturer, 1987-88; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, assistant professor, 1988-94; Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, associate professor, 1994-2000, professor of English, 2000—.

MEMBER:

Modern Language Association of America, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Victorian Institute, Midwest Victorian Studies Association (member of executive board, 1994-99), Midwest Modern Language Association, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Phi Kappa Phi.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Rotary International fellow in France, 1978-79.

WRITINGS:

Genre and Gender in Novels without End: The British Roman-Fleuve, University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL), 1995.

Literary Liaisons: Auto/biographical Appropriations in Modernist Women's Fiction, Northern Illinois University Press (DeKalb, IL), 2002.

Contributor to books, including Gerald Graff, edited by William E. Cain, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1993; Teaching Theory to Undergraduates, edited by William E. Cain and Dianne Sadoff, Modern Language Association of America (New York, NY), 1994; Rereading Modernism: New Directions in Feminist Criticism, edited by Lisa Rado, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1994; and Part Two: Reflecting upon the Sequel, edited by Elizabeth Schellenberg and Paul Budra, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1998. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Mosaic, Proteus, Victorian Newsletter, Frontiers, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Centennial Review, Film Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, and Café in Spacel. Editor-in-chief, Clio, 1994—.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

The Portrait in Victorian Literature, a study of the ekphrastic portrait in nineteenth-century fiction.