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About Catherine Golden

Catherine J. Golden is professor of English and the Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters at Skidmore College.  She is author of Serials to Graphic Novels: The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book (UPF 2017), Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing (UPF 2009), and Images of the Woman Reader in Victorian British and American Fiction (UPF 2003). In addition, she is editor or coeditor of five additional books on topics ranging from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Victorian illustration, literature, and culture and a regular contributor to Illustration Magazine, a British arts journal.

Dr. Golden’s essays and reviews have appeared in Victorian Studies,Victorian Poetry, American Literary Realism, ANQ, Beatrix Potter Studies, the Victorian Web, and other journals, collections, and anthologies. SShe is a founding member of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society and served as Executive Director from 1998-2002. Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing is the winner of the 2010 DeLong Book History prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing (SHARP). In 2012, Golden received the Faculty Distinguished Lectureship Award at Skidmore College entitled the Moseley Award and, in 2016, she was awarded an endowed chair and is currently the Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters. She has also published two Victorian-themed children’s books, Victorian Cat Tales, Book I: The Life and Times of Rose and Leopold (2013), and Victorian Cat Tales, Book II: Rose and Leopold Living Royally (2014).

Positions

Present Professor and Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters, Skidmore College English Department
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Courses

  • EN 105H: The Reader Within
  • EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 223: Women and Literature
  • EN 228H: The Victorian Illustrated Book
  • EN 229: Children's Literature
  • EN 316: The Nineteenth-Century British Novel
  • EN 352: Victorian Literature and Culture
  • EN 360: Women Writers
  • EN 363: Jane Austen, Inc.
  • EN 363R: Jane Austen
  • EN 375: Jane Austen
  • EN 375: The Brontës
  • HF 300: Jane Austen in Bath
  • SSP 100: Children's Literature Revisited

Education

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B.A., Brown University
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ED.M., Harvard University
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Ph.D., University of Michigan
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