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English Department
Stony Brook University
Humanities Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY
11794-5350
Phone: 631.632.7400

Celia Marshik

Associate Professor. Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1999; 20th Century British Literature; Modernism; Feminist Studies.

1108 Humanities
631-632-6356
cmarshik@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Courses:

Spring 2008
  • On Leave
Fall 2008
  • Literary Analysis & Argumentation (EGL 204) 
  • Modernism and Desire (EGL 606)

Selected Publications:

  • British Modernism and Censorship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • "Parodying the Virgin: Bernard Shaw and the Playing of Pygmalion." The Yale Journal of Criticism 13 (2000): 321-341.
  • "Publication and 'Public Women': Prostitution and Censorship in Three Novels by Virginia Woolf." Modern Fiction Studies 45 (1999): 853-886.
  • "Virginia Woolf and Feminist Intellectual History: The Case of Josephine Butler and Three Guineas." Virginia Woolf and Her Influences. Ed. Laura Davis and Jeanette McVicker. New York: Pace University Press, 1998. 91-97.
  • "The Case of 'Jenny': Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Censorship Dialectic." Forthcoming in Victorian Literature and Culture (works in progress).
  • "Looking for Woolf in the National Archives." Virginia Woolf Miscellany 65( Spring 2004): 7-8.
  • "History's 'Abrupt Revenges': Censoring War's Perversions in The Well of Loneliness and Sleeveless Erand." The Journal of Modern Literature 26.2 (2003): 145-159.

Celia Marshik received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Her teaching and scholarship focus on British modernism, particularly on legal and cultural contexts for such works of high modernism as Ulysses and Orlando. Her first book, British Modernism and Censorship, explored the ways in which government, commercial, and private censorship shaped the work of five major writers. “Wearing Modernity,” her current project, excavates the cultural meanings associated with evening gowns, mackintoshes, costumes and second-hand clothing, garments that writers and filmmakers used to create character and advance arguments. She is the proud recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.

British Modernism & Censorship