Stephanie Harzewski
Stephanie Harzewski teaches contemporary British and American literature, and, more generally, British literature since 1800, as well as female sexuality and popular culture. She taught the first online course of the department and has contributed regularly to eUNH’s initiatives, whether piloting software or participating as a panelist in course development and pedagogy-related forums. Her book, Chick Lit and Postfeminism (University of Virginia Press, 2011), received critical acclaim internationally and was a bestseller (top-ten ranking in Amazon.com’s Nonfiction—Women Writers category); this project was supported by grants and fellowships from the Kosciuszko Foundation, AAUW, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Romance Writers of America. Harzewski has published in peer review journals such as Contemporary Women’s Writing, The Age of Johnson, The Eighteenth-Century Novel, and Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, and several edited book volumes. She has served as a judge and judges’ chair for AAUW’s Grants and Fellowship division as well as a reviewer for Blackboard’s Exemplary Course competition. Harzewski received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania with a graduate certificate in women’s studies. She received a COLA Teaching Excellence Award in 2016.
Research Interests
- Contemporary fiction
- Media representations of female sexuality
- Novel in English
- Pop culture
- Women writers of narrative prose
Courses Taught
- ENGL 401: First-Year Writing
- ENGL 401H: Honors/First-Year Writing
- ENGL 516W: American Lit II Money
- ENGL 520: Dystopian Lit
- ENGL 575: Sex and Sensibility: Chick Lit
- ENGL 595: Literary Topics
- WS 401: Intro to Women's Studies
- WS 405: Gender, Power and Privilege
- WS 796: Advanced Topics
Selected Publications
Harzewski, S. (2016). The Picture of Dorian Gray Reader's Guide for Albert.io. Retrieved from https://www.albert.io/the-picture-of-dorian-gray
Harzewski, S. (2011). Chick Lit and Postfeminism. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Harzewski, S. (2008). Weighting Jeanette Winterson. CONTEMPORARY WOMENS WRITING, 2(1), 70-76. doi:10.1093/cww/vpn009
Harzewski, S. (2007). New Voice, Old Body: the Case of Penelope Fitzgerald. Contemporary Women's Writing, 1(1-2), 24-33. doi:10.1093/cww/vpm003
Harzewski, S. (2006). Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners. In Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction (pp. 29-46). New York, NY: Routledge.
Harzewski, S. (2006). The <i>Fantomina</i> Phenomenon: Eliza Haywood and the Formation of a Heroine. The Eighteenth-Century Novel, 5, 175-196.
Harzewski, S. (2004). 'Chick Lit' and the Urban Code Heroine: Interview Symposium with Caren Lissner, Melissa Senate, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and Jennifer Weiner. In Voces de América/American Voices: Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers (pp. 689-719). Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja.
Harzewski, S. (2004). The Limits of Defamiliarization: <i>Sex and the City</i> as Late Heterosexuality. The Scholar and Feminist Online, 3(1).
Harzewski, S. (2004). Consuming Heteroscripts: The Modern Wedding in the American Imaginary. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 4, 79-91.
Harzewski, S., & Bowers, T. (2002). An Unfinished Renaissance: New Editions of Eliza Haywood. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 13, 473-508.
Most Cited Publications