Pam Lieske,
English
Professor
Campus:
Trumbull
Biography
Included among the courses Professor Lieske teaches are:
- Women's Literature
- Applied Literary Criticism
- 18th-C British Literature
- Professional Writing
- Composition
Pam Lieske teaches courses in 18th-C British literature and culture, feminist theory, women鈥檚 literature, and writing. She is the editor of the 12 volume 18th-C British Midwifery (Pickering and Chatto 2007-09) and has published essays on the history of science and medicine, enlightenment culture, and women鈥檚 literature. Her current research focuses on sexual assault and trauma in contemporary women鈥檚 fiction as well as on female Gothic fiction from the eighteenth-century to the present, with particular emphasis on women鈥檚 corporeal punishment and its connection to scientific and medical practices.
Education
Ph.D. English University of Massachusetts at Amherst
MA and BA Portland State University
BS Nursing Washington State University
MA and BA Portland State University
BS Nursing Washington State University
Publications
- 鈥淒eformity of the Maternal Pelvis in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain.鈥 Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century, ed. Ray Stephanson (University of Toronto Press, 2015) 319-43.
- 鈥淢ade in Imitation of Real Women and Children鈥: Obstetrical Machines in Eighteenth-Century Britain,鈥 The Female Body in Medicine and Literature. Eds. Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge, Liverpool University Press, 2010, 59-88. Editor, Eighteenth-Century Br