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Nora S. Gilbert

Title: Professor

Department: English

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of Southern California, 2010
    Major: English
    Dissertation: The Joy of Censorship: Strategies of Circumvention in Novel and Film
  • MA, University of Southern California, 2004
    Major: English
  • BA, Harvard University, 1996
    Major: English and American Literrature and Languages

Current Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2025
WGST 3720.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2025
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
ENGL 5200.001Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian PeriodFall 2024
ENGL 4435.001Studies in Victorian LiteratureFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 4450.001Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s)Spring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4450.310Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s)Spring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
ENGL 5200.001Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian PeriodFall 2023 SPOT
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 3720.001Women's LiteratureFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
ENGL 6810.001Topics in Critical TheorySpring 2023 SPOT
ENGL 2321.002British LiteratureFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
ENGL 4620.001Studies in Literature and FilmFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
ENGL 5930.001Research Problems in Lieu of Thesis (Original Scholarly Papers)Spring 2022 SPOT
ENGL 5900.718Special ProblemsSpring 2022
ENGL 4450.001Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s)Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 3720.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
ENGL 5200.001Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian PeriodFall 2021 SPOT
ENGL 4435.001Studies in Victorian LiteratureFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W1 2021
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
ENGL 5800.001Studies in Literary GenresSpring 2021 SPOT
ENGL 4620.001Studies in Literature and FilmSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2321.001British LiteratureFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
ENGL 4435.001Studies in Victorian LiteratureFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W2 2020
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
ENGL 2400.001Literature, Media, and Popular CultureSpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 5930.001Research Problems in Lieu of Thesis (Original Scholarly Papers)Spring 2020
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
ENGL 5200.001Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian PeriodFall 2019 SPOT
ENGL 5200.601Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian PeriodFall 2019 SPOT
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 3720.001Women's LiteratureFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.706Directed ResearchSpring 2019
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationSpring 2019
ENGL 5200.001Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian PeriodSpring 2019 SPOT
ENGL 5200.601Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian PeriodSpring 2019 SPOT
ENGL 4435.001Studies in Victorian LiteratureSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.718Directed ResearchFall 2018
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2018
ENGL 6941.706Directed ResearchSpring 2018
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationSpring 2018
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 3720.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.718Directed ResearchFall 2017
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2017
ENGL 5260.001Studies in Nineteenth Century British Literature and CultureFall 2017 SPOT
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 3720.001Women's LiteratureFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.706Directed ResearchSpring 2017
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationSpring 2017
ENGL 4435.001Studies in Victorian LiteratureSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3911.002Topics in British LiteratureSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6810.001Topics in Critical TheorySpring 2017 SPOT
ENGL 3440.002British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3440.003British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.718Directed ResearchFall 2016
ENGL 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2016
ENGL 6941.706Directed ResearchSpring 2016
ENGL 5800.001Studies in Literary GenresSpring 2016 SPOT
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
WMST 3720.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.718Directed ResearchFall 2015
ENGL 4900.706Special ProblemsFall 2015
ENGL 5200.001Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian PeriodFall 2015 SPOT
ENGL 4435.001Studies in Victorian LiteratureFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5760.001Scholarly and Critical WritingSpring 2015
ENGL 6810.001Topics in Critical TheoryFall 2014
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureFall 2014 Syllabus
WMST 3720.001Women's LiteratureFall 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 3440.003British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentSpring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 4500.001British FictionSpring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 5200.001Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian PeriodFall 2013
ENGL 3442.001Introduction to Victorian LiteratureSpring 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 3440.001British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentFall 2012 Syllabus
ENGL 3440.003British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentFall 2012 Syllabus

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Gilbert, N.S. (2013). Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship. Stanford University Press.
  • Book Chapter

  • Gilbert, N. (2020). "Shirley Temple's Baby Burlesks". The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture.
  • Book Review

  • Gilbert, N.S. (2022). Review of "Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century". Victorian Studies Journal.
  • Gilbert, N.S. (2009). Review of "Mothers on the Fast Track," by Mary Ann Mason. Oxford UP, 2009.. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
  • Gilbert, N.S. (2008). Review of "The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot." Stanford University Press, 2007.. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
  • Journal Article

  • Gilbert, N.S. (2019). "(Dis)Agreements: Censorship and the Constitution of Classical Cinema".
  • Gilbert, N. (2019). "Everything Old is Novel Again" (Introduction). Studies in the Novel. "Fifty Years of Studies in the Novel: A Look Back".
  • Gilbert, N. (2018). "Sex and the Storyworld: Narrativizing Desirability in the Early Films of Fred Astaire". JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory.
  • Gilbert, N. (2018). "Impatient to be Gone: Aphra Behn's Vindication of the Flights of Woman". Eighteenth-Century Life. Gone Girls: The Runaway Woman Narrative in 18th- and 19th-Century British Fiction.
  • Gilbert, N. (2017). "Lilith on the Moors: The Brontë Sisters' Runaway Women". Victorian Review. Gone Girls: The Runaway Woman Narrative in 18th- and 19th-Century British Fiction.
  • Gilbert, N. (2016). "Out of the Pasts: Reading Victorian Sensation Fiction through the Lens of Hollywood Film Noir". Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.
  • Gilbert, N.S. (2015). "A Servitude of One's Own: Isolation, Authorship, and the Nineteenth-Century British Governess". Nineteenth-Century Literature. 69 (4)
  • Gilbert, N.S. (2012). "Thackeray, Sturges, and the Scandal of Censorship". PMLA. 127 (3)
  • Gilbert, N.S. (2011). "'She Makes Love for the Papers': Love, Sex, and Exploitation in Hitchcock's Mata Hari Films". Film & History. 41 (2)
  • Monograph

  • Gilbert, N.S. (2023). Gone Girls, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Oxford University Press.
  • Newspaper

  • Gilbert, N.S. (2013). "How Censorship Improves Art". Austin American-Statesman.
  • Online publication (Avidly)

  • Gilbert, N.S. (2023). "Best Chase Scene: Bringing Up Baby (1938)" in "Rom Com Superlatives" cluster.
  • Other

  • Gilbert, N. (2018). "'All voices were for her': The Irresistible Indecency of Becky Sharp".

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Gilbert, N. (Principal), "Ernestine Richter Avery Fellowship," sponsored by Huntington Library, Private, $3000.00 Funded. (2016 - 2016).
  • Gilbert, N.S. (Principal), "Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2013 - 2013).
  • Grant - Research

  • Gilbert, N.S., "Micro Mentoring Grant," University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
  • Gilbert, N., "Micro Mentoring Grant," University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2019 - 2020).
  • Gilbert, N.S. (Principal), "Micro Mentoring Grant," University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2018 - 2019).
  • Gilbert, N.S., "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $4748 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
  • Gilbert, N.S. (Co-Principal), "Team Mentoring Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $3500 Funded. (2015 - 2016).
  • Gilbert, N.S. (Principal), "Micro Mentoring Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $1350 Funded. (2014 - 2015).
  • Gilbert, N.S. (Principal), "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2014 - 2015).
  • Gilbert, N.S. (Co-Principal), "Team Mentoring Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2014 - 2015).
  • Gilbert, N.S. (Principal), "Research Enabling Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $7500 Funded. (2013 - 2014).
  • Gilbert, N.S. (Principal), "Research Initiation Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $7500 Funded. (2013 - 2013).
  • Gilbert, N.S. (Principal), "Publication Grant," sponsored by Text and Academic Authors Association, Private, $250 Funded. (2012 - 2012).
  • Gilbert, N. (Principal), "Publication Grant," sponsored by Text and Academic Authors Association, Private, Funded. (2012 - 2012).
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