Faculty Profile

Nora Gilbert

Title
Associate 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 Title: 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 4450.001, Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s), Spring 2024 Syllabus
ENGL 4450.310, Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s), Spring 2024 Syllabus


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2023 
                    

                    ENGL 5200.001, Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian Period, Fall 2023  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3924.001, Women's Literature, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    WGST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2023 
                    

                    ENGL 6810.001, Topics in Critical Theory, Spring 2023  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 2321.002, British Literature, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2022 
                    

                    ENGL 4620.001, Studies in Literature and Film, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022 
                    

                    ENGL 5930.001, Research Problems in Lieu of Thesis (Original Scholarly Papers), Spring 2022  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 5900.718, Special Problems, Spring 2022 
                    

                    ENGL 4450.001, Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s), Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3924.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    WGST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2021 
                    

                    ENGL 5200.001, Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian Period, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 4435.001, Studies in Victorian Literature, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W1 2021 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021 
                    

                    ENGL 5800.001, Studies in Literary Genres, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 4620.001, Studies in Literature and Film, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 2321.001, British Literature, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020 
                    

                    ENGL 4435.001, Studies in Victorian Literature, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W2 2020 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2020 
                    

                    ENGL 2400.001, Literature, Media, and Popular Culture, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 5930.001, Research Problems in Lieu of Thesis (Original Scholarly Papers), Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2019 
                    

                    ENGL 5200.001, Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian Period, Fall 2019  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 5200.601, Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian Period, Fall 2019  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3924.001, Women's Literature, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    WGST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6941.706, Directed Research, Spring 2019 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2019 
                    

                    ENGL 5200.001, Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian Period, Spring 2019  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 5200.601, Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian Period, Spring 2019  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 4435.001, Studies in Victorian Literature, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6941.718, Directed Research, Fall 2018 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2018 
                    

                    ENGL 6941.706, Directed Research, Spring 2018 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2018 
                    

                    ENGL 3924.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    WGST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6941.718, Directed Research, Fall 2017 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2017 
                    

                    ENGL 5260.001, Studies in Nineteenth Century British Literature and Culture, Fall 2017  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3924.001, Women's Literature, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    WGST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6941.706, Directed Research, Spring 2017 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2017 
                    

                    ENGL 4435.001, Studies in Victorian Literature, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3911.002, Topics in British Literature, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6810.001, Topics in Critical Theory, Spring 2017  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3440.002, British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the Present, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3440.003, British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the Present, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6941.718, Directed Research, Fall 2016 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.718, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2016 
                    

                    ENGL 6941.706, Directed Research, Spring 2016 
                    

                    ENGL 5800.001, Studies in Literary Genres, Spring 2016  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3924.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    WMST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6941.718, Directed Research, Fall 2015 
                    

                    ENGL 4900.706, Special Problems, Fall 2015 
                    

                    ENGL 5200.001, Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian Period, Fall 2015  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 4435.001, Studies in Victorian Literature, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 5760.001, Scholarly and Critical Writing, Spring 2015 
                    

                    ENGL 6810.001, Topics in Critical Theory, Fall 2014 
                    

                    ENGL 3924.001, Women's Literature, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    WMST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3440.003, British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the Present, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 4500.001, British Fiction, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 5200.001, Studies in British Literature and Culture of the Victorian Period, Fall 2013 
                    

                    ENGL 3442.001, Introduction to Victorian Literature, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3440.001, British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the Present, Fall 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3440.003, British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the Present, Fall 2012 Syllabus

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
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". 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
Awarded Grants



  
  
  	  
          
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. (September 2022 – August 2023).
Gilbert, N., "Micro Mentoring Grant," University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (September 2019 – August 2020).
Gilbert, N. S. (Principal), "Micro Mentoring Grant," University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (August 2018 – July 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).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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