Wendy Nielsen
- Professor English
- nielsenw@montclair.edu
- Phone
- (973) 655-7321
- Location
- Montclair Campus > Dickson Hall > Room 465
- Office Hours (Spring)
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Monday: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Usually Zoom only; email for link
Thursday: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, in person or Zoom; email for link
Biography
CV/home page: http://www.wendynielsen.com
https://works.bepress.com/wendy-nielsen/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wendy_Nielsen2
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=178vM-0AAAAJ&hl=en
Education
- BA, University of California, San Diego
- PhD, University of California, Davis
Research
Wendy C. Nielsen, Ph.D., is the Graduate Program Coordinator for English and teaches courses on European Romanticism, Science Fiction, Enlightenment literature, and other topics in comparative literature. She earned her B.A. in German Literature (magna cum laude) from UC San Diego, her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Davis, and has studied at Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany. Her scholarly research explores the recurrence of key figures in Western cultural history, as seen in her books Women Warriors in Romantic Drama (University of Delaware Press, 2012), which examines female figures like Charlotte Corday and Olympe de Gouges, and Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890 (Routledge, 2022), which traces the literary genealogy of transhumanism through figures such as Frankenstein's creature, automata, and androids. Wendy has published essays on a wide range of topics, including Frankenstein, Romantic-era automata, Boadicea, Rousseau, Goethe, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Corday, in leading academic journals such as Studies in English Literature, Comparative Drama, The Eighteenth Century, The European Romantic Review, and the Goethe Yearbook. Her current research focuses on American illness narratives from those facing chronic disease. Outside of teaching, Wendy continues to pursue her own studies, exploring Pilates, Buddhism, Tai Chi, Qigong, cat care, and Narrative Medicine. In addition to English courses, she teaches in the Honors Program (Transformations), Medical Humanities (Medicine, Literature, and Illness & Healing in America), and graduate seminars on the Romantic Movement, Science Fiction, and Literary Research.
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Wendy C. Nielsen, Ph.D., is the Graduate Program Coordinator for English and teaches courses on European Romanticism, Science Fiction, Enlightenment literature, and other topics in comparative literature. She earned her B.A. in German Literature (magna cum laude) from UC San Diego, her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Davis, and has studied at Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany. Her scholarly research explores the recurrence of key figures in Western cultural history, as seen in her books Women Warriors in Romantic Drama (University of Delaware Press, 2012), which examines female figures like Charlotte Corday and Olympe de Gouges, and Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890 (Routledge, 2022), which traces the literary genealogy of transhumanism through figures such as Frankenstein's creature, automata, and androids. Wendy has published essays on a wide range of topics, including Frankenstein, Romantic-era automata, Boadicea, Rousseau, Goethe, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Corday, in leading academic journals such as Studies in English Literature, Comparative Drama, The Eighteenth Century, The European Romantic Review, and the Goethe Yearbook. Her current research focuses on American illness narratives from those facing chronic disease. Outside of teaching, Wendy continues to pursue her own studies, exploring Pilates, Buddhism, Tai Chi, Qigong, cat care, and Narrative Medicine. In addition to English courses, she teaches in the Honors Program (Transformations), Medical Humanities (Medicine, Literature, and Illness & Healing in America), and graduate seminars on the Romantic Movement, Science Fiction, and Literary Research.
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