Professor, English
Wendy C. Nielsen received her B.A. in German Literature (magna cum laude) from UC San Diego and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Davis. She is a specialist in European (British, German, and French) Romanticism, drama, and (women) writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has written 2 books, Women Warriors in Romantic Drama (University of Delaware Press, 2012) and Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890 (Routledge 2022), and articles about automata and androids in the Romantic period; Boadicea; Charlotte Corday; drama in British, German, and French Romanticism (including Elizabeth Inchbald); Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust;" Olympe de Gouges; and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Her new research project is titled Women Writers’ Remedies: Transforming the Narrative Arc of Healing.
Professor Nielsen teaches undergraduate courses such as: European Romanticism, Modern Drama: Ibsen to O’Neill, Literature of the Enlightenment Era, Restoration and 18th-Century Drama, World Literature, Modern European Novel, Science Fiction, and Critical Approaches to English. She also contributes to the Honors Program and the Medical Humanities Program (Medicine, Literature, and Illness). Graduate coursework has included: The Romantic Movement; Ibsen, Strindberg, and Shaw; Science Fiction; and Seminar in Literary Research: Methods.
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About Wendy Nielsen
Wendy C. Nielsen received her B.A. in German Literature (magna cum laude) from UC San Diego and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Davis. She is a specialist in European (British, German, and French) Romanticism, drama, and (women) writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has written 2 books, Women Warriors in Romantic Drama (University of Delaware Press, 2012) and Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890 (Routledge 2022), and articles about automata and androids in the Romantic period; Boadicea; Charlotte Corday; drama in British, German, and French Romanticism (including Elizabeth Inchbald); Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust;" Olympe de Gouges; and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Her new research project is titled Women Writers’ Remedies: Transforming the Narrative Arc of Healing.
Professor Nielsen teaches undergraduate courses such as: European Romanticism, Modern Drama: Ibsen to O’Neill, Literature of the Enlightenment Era, Restoration and 18th-Century Drama, World Literature, Modern European Novel, Science Fiction, and Critical Approaches to English. She also contributes to the Honors Program and the Medical Humanities Program (Medicine, Literature, and Illness). Graduate coursework has included: The Romantic Movement; Ibsen, Strindberg, and Shaw; Science Fiction; and Seminar in Literary Research: Methods.
| Present | Associate Professor, Montclair State University ‐ English | |
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Disciplines
| 2001 | PhD, University of California, Davis ‐ Comparative Literature | |
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| 1995 | Intermediate Certificate, Georg August Universität ‐ Latin | |
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| 1994 | BA, University of California, Davis ‐ German Literature | |
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