Roberta Rubenstein Prof Emerita Literature
- Additional Positions at AU
- Professor of Literature
- Degrees
- Ph.D. in English Literature, University of London; B.A. in English, University of Colorado.
- Bio
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Professor Rubenstein's primary teaching interests include literary Modernism (fiction), women writers (specialties: Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison), 19th century Russian literature in translation, and feminist literary theory. She has published more than thirty articles and book chapters as well as six books, two co-edited books, and one monograph: The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing: Breaking the Forms of Consciousness (1979); Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction (1987); Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction (2001); Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View (2009); Literary Half-Lives: Doris Lessing, Clancy Sigal, and roman a clef (2014); and Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook After Fifty (co-edited with Alice Ridout and Sandra Singer, 2015). Her monograph, Reminiscences of Leonard Woolf (2005), traces her friendship with Virginia Woolf's husband. Rubenstein and and her husband, AU Professor of Literature Emeritus Charles R. Larson, co-edited Worlds of Fiction (1993; 2nd ed. 2001), an anthology of international short stories.
She has been honored with several awards for teaching and scholarship
at 猫咪社区app University, including the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Teaching (twice) and its Senior Scholar Award. She was named 猫咪社区app University's Scholar/Teacher of the Year in 1994.
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- The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing: Breaking the Forms of聽 Consciousness.Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1979. 聽 聽 聽 聽
- Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction.U of Illinois P, 1987. 聽 聽 聽 聽
- Worlds of Fiction, co-editor, with Charles R. Larson. New York: Macmillan, 1993, 2002 (2nd. ed.) Anthology of international short fiction: 126 stories with introduction, endnotes, and questions. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002. 聽 聽 聽 聽
- Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women鈥檚 Fiction New York: Palgrave, 2001. 聽聽
- Reminiscences of Leonard Woolf.聽Bloomsbury Heritage Series, No. 40. London:聽Cecil Woolf Publishers, 2005. 聽聽
- Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View. 聽New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.聽
- Literary Half-Lives: Doris Lessing, Clancy Sigal, and Roman a Clef, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.聽
- Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook After Fifty (co-ed. with Alice Ridout and Sandra Singer), Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.