The University of St. Thomas

College of Arts & Sciences | Department of English

Catherine Craft-Fairchild

Catherine Craft-Fairchild

Catherine Craft-Fairchild
Fairchild

Professor of English / Graduate English Program Director

c9craftfairc@stthomas.edu
Phone: (651) 962-5614

Office Location: JRC 334
Office Hours: (Spring 2012): MWF 11:00am-12:00pm; also by appointment

Courses taught in Spring 2012
ENGL 212-01
20750		 British Authors II 0935-1040 M W F OEC 210

4 Credit Hours

This course will focus on extensive reading of a broad selection of British authors from Romanticism to the present. Students will engage in close analysis of literary texts by such authors as Blake, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Conrad, and Woolf, with some attention to historical and cultural contexts. Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112 or 190
Courses taught in Summer 2012
GENG 573-01
30293		 Judaism in Literature 1800-2100 M R JRC 222

3 Credit Hours

Possible topics may include literature and films, the Bible and literature, the memoir, ecology and literature, literatures of the Holocaust, and literary biography. Credit may be earned more than once under this course number for different emphases.
Courses taught in Fall 2012
ENGL 203-42
41818		 HON:Work, Workers & Amer Dream 1055-1200 M W F TBD

4 Credit Hours

With its focus on thematic and intertextual perspectives, the readings in this course might be ordered any number of ways: according to theme, an idea that develops across genres or literary periods, or by their incorporation of specific oral or textual precedents (e.g. mythology, the Bible, classical writings, legends, or folklore).
ENGL 297-01
42473		 Survey of Irish Literature 0935-1040 M W F TBD

4 Credit Hours

The subject matter of these courses will vary from year to year, but will not duplicate existing courses. Descriptions of these courses are available in the Searchable Class Schedule on Murphy Online, View Searchable Class Schedule

Academic History

M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester
B.A., Canisius College
At St. Thomas since 1989

Expertise/Specialties

18th- and 19th-Century British Literature
Film Studies
Jewish Studies

Selected Publications

Book:  
Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.

Articles and reviews:

Nora Nachumi’s Acting Like a Lady:  British Women Novelists and the Eighteenth-Century Theater (AMS Press, 2008).  Eighteenth-Century Fiction (forthcoming, fall 2010).

"Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy:  Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 15.3 (Sept. 2006):  408-31.

"Do We Remember?: The Catholic Church and the Holocaust," Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 9.2 (Spring 2006): 68-106.

"Castaway and Cast Away: Colonial, Imperial, and Religious Discourses in Daniel Defoe and Robert Zemeckis," The Journal of Religion and Film, 9.1 (April 2005):  www.unomaha.edu/jrf.

Revew of Ann Cline Kelly's Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and The Man  (Palgrave, 2002).  New Hibernia Review 7.3 (Autumn 2003): 148-50.

"Highlighting Women Writers at the End of the Eighteenth Century." Review of Eleanor Ty's Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812 (Univ. of Toronto Press, 1998) and Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray, ed. Shelley King and John B. Pierce (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999). Eighteenth-Century Studies 35.4 (Summer 2002): 623-5.

"'Same Person...Just a Different Sex':  Sally Potter's Construction of Gender in Orlando." Woolf Studies Annual, Volume 7 (January 2001): 23-48.

Selected Presentations

“Shylock Revolutionized: Nationalism, Politics, Pamphlets and the Jews,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2010
 
“Shylock During the Long Eighteenth Century: British Nationalism and the Jews,” Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, October 2009
 
“The Genesis of Harrington: The Correspondence of Maria Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2009

“The Merchant of Venice as a Test Case for Eighteenth-Century Anti- and Philo-Semitic Sentiments,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2008.

"'Gratitude...[Shall] Bind You to Good Behavior':  Benevolence and Surveillance in the Writings of  Sarah Scott," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2007.

Roundtable discussant for "Teaching the Transatlantic" (speaking about my graduate-level course, "The West  Indies in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination"), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2006.

"Castaway and Cast Away:  Colonial and Imperial Discourses in Daniel Defoe and Robert Zemeckis,"  American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2005.

"The Director Who Didn't Make the Cut:  Alfred Hitchcock and the Vatican Film List," analysis of Notorious and Marnie, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2005.

Awards & Honors

2004-2005 Aquinas Scholars Professor of the Year

Membership in Professional Associations

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS), President 2006-07, Vice-President 2005-06