Felicity Nussbaum
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2009-2010,
advisory committee
Nussbaum is a specialist in British literature (1660–1800),
postcolonial and Anglophone studies, and gender studies. She is
completing a book on actresses, performance, and material practices in
eighteenth-century British theatre. She hopes to show how the first and
second generations of women on the English stage transformed ideas
about celebrity, property relations, and nation. Along with Saree
Makdisi, she is editing a collection of essays on The Arabian Nights in historical context. She is the author, most recently, of The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press), and editor of The Global Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press).
