Michael Ragussis
Title
Professor
Department
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
General profile
Phone
202-687-7621
Fax
202-687-5445
Location
323 New North
Bio
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University; MA, Columbia University; BA, City College of New York.
Teaching and Research Interests: 18th- and 19th- century British literature and culture; Anglo-Jewish studies; Ethnic studies (Irish, Scottish, Jewish).
Recent Publications:
"Representation, Conversion, and Literary Form: Harrington and the Novel of Jewish Identity," Critical Inquiry (Autumn 1989), 113-143; "Writing Nationalist History: England, the Conversion of the Jews, and Ivanhoe," ELH (Spring 1993), 181-215; "The Birth of a Nation in Victorian Culture: The Spanish Inquisition, the Converted Daughter, and the `Secret Race,'" Critical Inquiry (Spring 1994), 477-508; "Jews and Other `Outlandish Englishmen": Ethnic Performance and the Invention of British Identity under the Georges," Critical Inquiry (Summer 2000), 773-9; "Passing for a Jew, On Stage and Off: Stage-Jews and Cross-Dressing Gentiles in Georgian England," in The Jews and British Romanticism, ed. Sheila A. Specter (Palgrave, 2005), pp. 41-60.
Books:
1) The Subterfuge of Art: Language and the Romantic Tradition (Johns Hopkins University, 1978);
2) Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in Fiction (Oxford, 1986);
3) Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity (Duke, 1995).
Work-in-Progress: A book that explores ethnic performance and national identity in late Georgian England.
Long-Term Grants: NEH Fellowships, 1980-81, 1988-89, 2006-2007; Folger Fellowship, 2005(declined); ACLS Fellowship, 2005-2006.
Teaching and Research Interests: 18th- and 19th- century British literature and culture; Anglo-Jewish studies; Ethnic studies (Irish, Scottish, Jewish).
Recent Publications:
"Representation, Conversion, and Literary Form: Harrington and the Novel of Jewish Identity," Critical Inquiry (Autumn 1989), 113-143; "Writing Nationalist History: England, the Conversion of the Jews, and Ivanhoe," ELH (Spring 1993), 181-215; "The Birth of a Nation in Victorian Culture: The Spanish Inquisition, the Converted Daughter, and the `Secret Race,'" Critical Inquiry (Spring 1994), 477-508; "Jews and Other `Outlandish Englishmen": Ethnic Performance and the Invention of British Identity under the Georges," Critical Inquiry (Summer 2000), 773-9; "Passing for a Jew, On Stage and Off: Stage-Jews and Cross-Dressing Gentiles in Georgian England," in The Jews and British Romanticism, ed. Sheila A. Specter (Palgrave, 2005), pp. 41-60.
Books:
1) The Subterfuge of Art: Language and the Romantic Tradition (Johns Hopkins University, 1978);
2) Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in Fiction (Oxford, 1986);
3) Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity (Duke, 1995).
Work-in-Progress: A book that explores ethnic performance and national identity in late Georgian England.
Long-Term Grants: NEH Fellowships, 1980-81, 1988-89, 2006-2007; Folger Fellowship, 2005(declined); ACLS Fellowship, 2005-2006.
Upcoming Events
- Nov 24, 12pm-1pm: CCT Library Research Help with David Gibbs
- Nov 24, 6pm: Tuesday Film Series: Being Jewish in France
- Dec 1, 12pm-1pm: CCT Library Research Help with David Gibbs
