Dr. Sophia Forster
Professor
E-mail: Sophia Forster
Education
Ph.D. English, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008
M.A. English, University of Victoria, 2001
B.A. English, York University, 1998
Teaching and Research Interests
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Late Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Marxian Theory
Selected Publications
“Labor, Slavery, and the Civil War.” The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Michael Jonik, Cambridge UP, forthcoming Spring 2024.
“Isabel’s ‘Indefinable’: The Fate of Liberal Feminism in James’s The Portrait of a Lady.” Radical Henry James, special issue of The Henry James Review, forthcoming Fall 2023.
“From Labor Reform to the Welfare State: The Critique of Capitalism in Three Postbellum Women’s Novels.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, vol. 9, no. 2, 2021, pp. 303-29.
“The Feminine Origins of American Literary Realism.” The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism, edited by Keith Newlin, Oxford UP, 2019, pp. 65-82.
“Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Emergence of American Literary Realism.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 48, no. 1, 2016, pp. 43-64.
“Peculiar Faculty and Peculiar Institution: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Labor and Slavery.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 60, no. 1, 2014, pp. 35-73.
“Americanist Literary Realism: Howells, Historicism, and American Exceptionalism.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 55, no. 2, 2009, pp. 216-41.