Stephanie Insley Hershinow

Assc Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: stephanie.hershinow@baruch.cuny.edu

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SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Spring 2019PSY4900HH: Psy Appr to Contemp Probs

Books

Hershinow, S. I. (2024). How Austen Works. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hershinow, S. (2022). Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. W.W. Norton.

Hershinow, S. (2021). Jane Austen's Emma. W.W. Norton .

Hershinow, S. (2019). Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Novel . (p. ~80,000 words (July 2019)). Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press .

Journal Articles

Hershinow, S. I. (2024). Companionable Utopianism: The Ideal of Equal Marriage in and after Lady Mary Hamilton’s Munster Village (1778)  . Eighteenth-Century Fiction,

Hershinow, S. (2023). "Clarissa, by the Numbers: Novel Experience and the Aesthetics of Quantification ". Eighteenth-Century Fiction,

Hershinow, S. (2018). The Best of Intentions . Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 47. 213-216.

Hershinow, S. (2017). The Incest Plot: Marriage, Closure, and the Novel's Endogamy . The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation ,

Hershinow, S. (2017). Romantic Selfhood and the Selfie: Relating to the Novel . Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons, 3,500 words.

Hershinow, S. (2015). Clarissa's Conjectural History: The Novel and the Novice . The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 56(3). 297-319.

Hershinow, S. (2014). When Experience Matters: Tom Jones and Virtue Rewarded . NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 47(3). 363-382.

Book Chapters

Hershinow, S. I. (2024). D.A. Miller's "Little Bit of Ivory". Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century Princeton University Press.

Hershinow, S. (2023). "Defoe and the Novel". Daniel Defoe in Context Cambridge University Press.

Hershinow, S. I. It's Not Personal. Barbara Johnson Still: The Ongoing Work of Feminist Deconstruction Northwestern University Press. In Progress.

Media Contributions

Hershinow, S. I. (2024). A Courtly History.

https://www.amazon.com/Courtly-History-Romance-19th-Century/dp/B0CS6T88XT

A series of lectures for The Great Courses, which creates video and audio lectures series for lifelong learners. 

This series is a 24000 word lecture series on the social history of the Regency period in Great Britain, including marriage and family law, relationship history, and the legacy of the period in literature and film. 

Hershinow, S. I., Powell, M., & Bergevin, K. (2023). "Like today, 18th-century laws about pregnancy aimed to control women" Washington Post, (May 17).

Presentations

Hershinow, S. I. "Persons and Nonpersons". American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. St. Louis, MO

Hershinow, S. (2018, March 31). Counting Clarissas. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Orlando, FL

Reviews

Hershinow, S. (2019,August 1). Review of Failures of Feeling. Eighteenth-Century Fiction.

Hershinow, S. (2018,October 1). Review of MLA Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding. The Scriblerian.

Hershinow, S. (2014,August 25). Lady Parts. ABO Public: An Interactive Forum for Women in the Arts: 1640-1830.

Research Currently in Progess

Hershinow, S.(n.d.). Nothing Personal: Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Remainders of Personhood. In Progress.

In-progress book manuscripts on the intersections of legal personhood and literary character in the British eighteenth century

TitleFunding Agency SponsorStart DateEnd DateAwarded DateTotal FundingStatus
Personhood and the Novel from Defoe to AustenPSC CUNY 5207/01/202106/30/202304/15/20213500Completed
Defoe and the NovelPSC-CUNY 5107/01/202012/31/202204/17/20206000Completed
Nothing Personal: Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Remaining of PersonhoodPSC-CUNY 5007/01/201912/31/202004/15/20196000Completed
Nothing Personal: Eighteen-Century Literature and the Remainders of PersonhoodEugene Lang Fellowship06/01/201906/30/202004/08/20195388Completed
Clarissa, by the NumbersPSC-CUNY 4907/01/201806/30/201904/15/20184480Completed
Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early NovelPSC-CUNY 4807/01/201706/30/201804/14/20176000Completed
"Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Novel'PSC-CUNY 4707/01/201606/30/201704/15/20166000Completed
"'Entrance Into the World': Frances Burney and the Redundancy of Youth"PSC-CUNY 4607/01/201506/30/201604/17/20154470Completed
"Clarissa's Conjectural History: The Novel and the Novice"PSC-CUNY 4507/01/201406/30/201504/15/20144248Completed
The Imaginist: Jane Austen as StorytellerPSC CUNY 5307/01/202212/31/202305/15/202212000Funded - In Progress
Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving InstitutionsNational Endowment for The Humanities 06/01/202408/31/202560000Submitted for Review
BRESI: Personal Effects: Legal and Literary Personhood Since the Eighteenth CenturyThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation09/01/202206/30/202310000Submitted for Review