CURRICULUM VITAE
Hilary M. Schor
Professor of English and Comparative Literature Dornsife College
Professor of Law, Gould School of Law
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089-0354
phone: (213) 740-3738
fax: (213) 741-0377
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updated November 12, 2017
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Professor, Department of English, University of Southern California, January 2000- present
Professor of Law, Gould School of Law (joint appointment) May 2001-present
Professor of Comparative Literature (joint appointment) January 2008-present
Professor and Chair, Gender Studies Program, July 1999- September 2001
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Southern California,
May 1992-January 2000
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Southern California, September 1986-May 1992
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS HELD:
Dean of Undergraduate Programs, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, University of Southern California. July 2006 – July 2007.
Director, “The College Commons,” an inter-disciplinary program of study and conversation across the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, July 2008- present.
President of the Academic Senate 2001 (Resigned to accept Guggenheim Fellowship); Academic Vice-President, 2000-2001.
Director, Center for Law, History and Culture, University of Southern California, September 2001-May 2004; June 2006 to present.
Director, Center for Feminist Research, July 1999-September 2001
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in English, Stanford University, June 1986.
M.A. in English, Stanford University, September 1981.
B.A. in British and American Literature, Scripps College, May 1980; elected Phi Beta Kappa, May 1979.
FELLOWSHIPS:
2017-2018 ASHHS Sabbatical Fellowship USC, “Bound by Law: Form and Forgiveness in the Victorian Novel”; “Stutter Steps: Narrative, Film and Mobility”
2012-2013 Research Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
2007: NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, with Paul Saint-Amour (University of Pennsylvania), “Adaptation and Revision: The Example of Great Expectations”
2002-3 Zumberge Faculty Research Fellowship (USC), with Professor Nomi Stolzenberg, for inter-disciplinary project on law, literature, libertinism and freedom of speech.
2001-2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, for Curiosity and the Novel: Women, Fiction, and the Subject of Realism.
2000: Innovative Teaching Faculty Fellowship (USC), for redesigning introduction to Gender Studies (with Professor Elinor Accampo, History Department).
1998-9: CARE Faculty Research Grant (USC), for Curiosity and the Novel: The Inventions of Victorian Realism.
1994-5: Stanford Humanities Center, fellowship for completion of The Habit of Disruption: Hidden Female Narratives in the Fiction of Charles Dickens.
1989: ACLS Grant-in-Aid, Fall 1989, for research in London.
1989: Faculty Research and Innovation Fund, U. S. C. Grant, for research on The Habit of Disruption: Hidden Female Narratives in the Fiction of Charles Dickens.
1988: Graves Foundation Fellowship, for semester's leave, Spring 1988, for beginning The Habit of Disruption: Hidden Female Narratives in the Fiction of Charles Dickens.
1987: Funds for Innovative Teaching, U. S. C. Faculty Development Grant, for creation of course in English and Comparative Literature, "Women of Letters in the Western Tradition."
1980-84: Stanford University Graduate Fellowship
PUBLICATION: BOOKS
Work in progress: “Bound by Law: Formal Law and the Victorian Novel.” A study of Victorian culture in the age of reform, which takes seriously the structure of fiction and the possibilities of the letter of the law. Chapters focus on such legal and literary questions as binding; promising; convicting; forgiving; willing and constitutioning, and center on the literature of the 1860s ranging from Browning, Eliot, Dickens, Trollope and Disraeli, and contemporary re-imaginings in film and popular culture. (Cue: another film about Queen Victoria and an Indian servant?)
Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism Oxford University Press, 2013. Reviewed in The London Review of Books, The Times Higher Education, Choice and one of Slate Magazine’s “The Overlooked Books of 2013” (December 2, 2013)
Dickens and the Daughter of the House. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Scheherezade in the Marketplace: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Novel. Oxford University Press, 1992. Chapters of this book have appeared in the Norton Critical Editions of North and South (edited Alan Shelston; Norton, 2004) and Mary Barton (edited Thomas Recchio, 2008).
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Curiosity at the End of the World,” Forthcoming in Curiosity Studies: Toward a New Ecology of Knowledge edited Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, University of Minnesota Press (31 manuscript pages; 13,000 words).
“Love” in “Keywords” Special Issue, Victorian Literature and Culture, edited Daniel Hack and Rachel Ablow; forthcoming, Fall 2018. (1,000 words)
"Emma, Interrupted: Speaking Jane Austen in Fiction and Film," reprinted in Film and Literature : An Introduction and Reader, edited by Timothy Corrigan, Routledge 2012.
“The Make Believe of a Middle: On (Not) Knowing Where You Are in Daniel Deronda.” Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century Novel, edited Caroline Levine and Mario Ortiz-Robles. Ohio State University Press, 2011, pp. 42-74.
“Free Speech and Free Love: The Law and Literature of the First Amendment” with Nomi M. Stolzenberg. MLA Teaching Law and Literature, edited Austin Sarat, Cathrine O. Frank and Matthew Anderson. MLA 2011, pp. 225-233.
“Who’s the Stranger? Jews, Women, and Bastards in Daniel Deronda.” in Law and the Stranger, edited by Austin Sarat and Martha Umphrey, Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. 180-210.
“Bleak House and Narrative Theory,” MLA Approaches to Teaching Dickens’s “Bleak House”, edited Gordon Bigelow and John O. Jordan, MLA 2008. Pp. 191-197.
“Dickens and Plot” in Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies, edited John Bowen and Robert L. Patten. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 90-111.
“Reading Knowledge: Curiosity in The Golden Bowl,” The Henry James Review, Volume 26, Number 3, Fall 2005. Pp. 237-246.
"Emma, Interrupted: Speaking Jane Austen in Fiction and Film," in Jane Austen on Screen, edited by Andrew and Gina Macdonald. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 144-174.
"Gender Politics and Women's Rights" in The Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel, edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing. Blackwell, 2002. Pp. 172-188.
"Bastard Daughters and Illegitimate Mothers: Burning Down the Courthouse in Bastard out of Carolina and Bleak House," co-authored with Nomi M. Stolzenberg. The Review of English and American Literature (annual), 2002.
"Dickens and the Novels of the 1850s." In Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens, edited by John Jordan. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 64-77.
"Sorting, Morphing and Mourning: A. S. Byatt Ghost-writes Victorian Fiction." In Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century, ed. John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Pp. 234-251.
"Show-Trials: Character, Conviction, and the Law in Victorian Fiction," Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature. Winter 1999. Pp. 179-195.
"Notes of a Libertine Daughter: Clarissa, Feminism and The Rise of the Novel." Stanford Humanities Review special issue honouring Ian Watt. Volume 8 No. 1 2000: 94-117.
"Fiction" in A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, ed. Herbert F. Tucker, Blackwell, 1998, pages 323-338.
"The Stupidest Novel in London: Thomas Carlyle and the Sickness of Victorian Fiction." In Carlyle Studies Annual, 1996, pages 117-131.
"'If He Should Turn To and Beat Her': Violence, Desire and the Woman's Story in Great Expectations." In critical edition of Great Expectations, ed. Janice Carlisle, Bedford Books, St. Martin Press, 1995, pages 541-558.
"Elizabeth Gaskell: A Critical History and a Critical Revision," Essay-review of Gaskell scholarship in Dickens Studies Annual, Volume 19, 1990, pages 345-369.
"The Plot of the Beautiful Ignoramus: Ruth and the Tradition of the Fallen Woman," in Sex and Death in Victorian Literature, Macmillan Press, 1990, pages 158-177.
"'Affairs of the Alphabet': Reading, Writing and Narrating in Cranford," Novel, Spring 1989, Volume 22, Number 3, pages 288-304.
"'Her Child Arm Tore Off Afore Thy Face': Seduced Women and the Social Text in Hard Times," in Reading Hard Times: Resource Handbook for Teaching and Study (1988); volume sponsored by U. S. Department of Education FIPSE Grant.
"Struggling through the Alphabet: Victorian Education and Teaching Great Expectations," in Reading Great Expectations: Resource Materials for Teaching and Study (1989); volume sponsored by Department of Education FIPSE Grant.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel, edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Alison L. LaCroix, Victorian Studies , Vol. 58, No. 4 (Summer 2016), pp. 739-741.
Review of Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction, Ayelet Ben-Yishai, forthcoming, Novel.
Review of Elizabeth Campbell, Fortune’s Wheel: Dickens and the Iconography of Women’s Time, The Dickensian.
Review of Cambridge Companion to George Eliot and Reader's Guide to George Eliot, in Victorian Studies, Autumn 2003, Volume 46, Number 1, pages 111-114.
"Seeing Into Realism," review of Elizabeth Ermarth, Realism and Consensus in the English Novel, in Novel, Spring 1989, Volume 22, Number 3, pages 338-340.
Review of Helena Michie, The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies, in Criticism, Spring 1988, Volume 30, Number 2, pages 259-263.
Review of Catherine Gallagher, The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction and Joseph Kestner, Protest and Reform in Signs, Autumn, 1986, pages 176-8.
Review of Philip Gura, The Wisdom of Words, in The New England Quarterly, Spring 1982, pages 132-4.
INVITED PAPERS AND TALKS:
“Can You Forgive Him?: Jed Rubenfeld, Sexual Consent, and the Useful Delay of the Victorian Novel,” paper given USC Gould School of Law, Faculty Workshop, April 2017.
“Bound by Law: Forgiving Fictions in Great Expectations.” Invited talk, Exeter University, June 2015.
“London. Michaelmas Term Lately Over. Or, How Charles Dickens Invented Back-Story and Saved the World, #ContemporaryFeministNovelist.” Invited talk, Pomona College, May 2014.
Book event, with invited commentators Catherine Gallagher, Sarah Raff and Norman Spaulding, “Hilary Schor: Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism, at Center for Law, History and Culture, USC, April 2014.
Book event, with invited commentators Paul Saint-Amour and James F. English, “Hilary Schor: Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism” at Penn Humanities Forum, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia PA, April 2013
“Forgiving Fictions: Women, Jews and other Victorian Legal Fictions.” New Directions in law and literature, Cornell University, April 2013.
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Cinema: Betrayal and Adaptation in Novel and Film.” Paper given Modernist Studies Group, Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center, March 2013.
“The Romance of Tony Blair: The Queen in the Garden, the Minister in the House, and the Jew in the Basement.” Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, December 2013.
“Law as literature/Literature as law.” Paper given at “Law As…” conference, University of California at Irvine, Law School, March 2012.
“Reading for the Law: Juridical Feminism in Great Expectations,” University of California, Berkeley Victorian Group, March 2011.
“George Eliot and the Curious Bride; or, Maidens Choosing.” Paper given Tufts University, Graduate Literature Colloquium, May 2008; 19th Century Literature Workshop, UCLA, May 2007.
“Thackeray, Vanity Fair and the Curious Eye,” Paper given Victorian Seminar, King’s College, November 2007.
“Re-Sizing the Novel: Alice, Nell, and the Curious Heroine.” Paper given Oxford University, Victorian Seminar, November 2006; given Harvard University, Humanities Center, April 2007.
“Who’s the Stranger? Women, Jews, and the Law in Daniel Deronda.” Paper given Amherst College, Center for Law, Jurisprudence and Society.” September 2005.
“Law and Literature: What Connection can There Be?” Paper given University of Virginia Law School, September 2004.
“Who’s Curious Now?” Paper given University of California Dickens Project, U.C. Santa Cruz, August 2003.
"Did Women Invent Realism, and If So, Why?" Paper given Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University, May 2003.
"The Law of Romance/The Romance of the Law." Plenary talk, Association for Law, Culture and Humanities. Cardozo Law School/NYU, March 2003.
"George Eliot and the Romance of Political Rights." Talk given at Vanderbilt University, November 2002.
"I Know I Am Not Clever." Paper given University of California Dickens Project Conference, U.C. Santa Cruz, August 2001.
"Trials, Novels and the Law." Workshop given at UCLA Law School, Fall 2000.
"Dickens and the Violent Femmes," Keynote lecture given at the University of California Dickens Project Conference, U.C. Santa Cruz, August 1999.
"Show-Trials: Character, Conviction, and the Law in Victorian Fiction," Paper given Cardozo Law School and Rice University Nineteenth Century Studies group, April 1999.
"The Law of Christmas, or, Adultery Takes a Holiday." Paper given University of California Dickens Project, August 1996.
"The Stupidest Novel in London: Thomas Carlyle and the Sickness of Victorian Fiction." Strouse Lecture, University of California, January 1996.
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Female Property." Given CUNY Graduate Center conference on Victorian Property, May 1995.
"The Daughter's Revolution: Bleak House, Writing and Property." Given University of California, Berkeley, February 1995.
"Criminalizing Femininity: Penitence, Prostitution, and Something Worse than All." Keynote address, Victorians Institute Conference on "Victorian Crime." September 1994.
"The Dandy, the Daughter, and Dust-Heaps: The Culture of Curiosity in Victorian England." Given University of California, Santa Cruz, March 1994.
"The Daughter's Revolution: Women, Ghosts and the Law in Bleak House." Given Humanities Center, University of Oregon, February 1993.
"Acculturating the Novel, Inspiriting the Age: Cultural Criticism and the Novel of the 1830s," Given UCLA Critical Theory Group, Spring 1992.
"Finishing Snow White: Plotting the End of the Story," Given at conference on "Discourses of/on Modernism," University of California at Los Angeles, May 1991.
"Shadows on the Prison-House Wall: Women, Masochism and Narrative in Early Dickens." Given at the Victorian Study Group, University of California, Los Angeles, November 1990.
CONFERENCE PLANNING:
“Making Law Great Again.” Senior Scholars Conference in Law and Humanities, Georgetown University (in conjunction with Center for Law, History and Culture). Organized theme and created panels on “Epistemologies of Authoritarianism: Violence and Forgetting in the Archives,” including “Fascism, Revanchism and Lies” and “The Counter-Factual States of America.” Georgetown University, June 2017.
Conference co-ordinator and moderator, “Urbanism and Urbanity in the European Nineteenth Century Novel,” University of California Dickens Project, August 2006. “Dickens: Life and After-Life,” U.C. Dickens Project, August 2005; “Victorian Terror,” U.C. Dickens Project, August 2004; “Victorian Soundings: Bodies, Voices, Noise,” U.C. Dickens Project, August 2003; "Getting and Spending: Victorian Business," U.C. Dickens Project, August 2002; "Victorian Waste," U.C. Dickens Project, August 2000; "Victoria Redressed: Feminism and 19th Century Studies," U.C. Dickens project, August 1999; "Victorian Spectacle," U.C. Dickens Project, August 1996. "Victorian Minds," U.C. Dickens Project August 1995; "Victorian Work," U.C. Dickens Project, August 1994; (Wrote call for papers; selected key-note speakers and individual panels; co-ordinated and moderated panels.)