Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English
608-263-3240
ssfriedm@wisc.edu
PhD University of Wisconsin, 1973
BA, Greek and English, Swarthmore College, 1965
20th and 21st Centuries American, British, and Anglophone world literatures; modernism/modernity; women’s writing (fiction, poetry, essay); feminist theory; comparative postcolonial, diaspora, migration, transnational, and border theory and literature; narrative theory; psychoanalysis; multiculturalism and race studies; contemporary cultural theory, especially anthropology and geography; film.
She is the author of Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D. (Indiana UP, 1981, 1987), the recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Books Award; Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.'s Fiction (Cambridge UP, 1990); Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter (Princeton UP, 1998; ebook, 2001), the recipient of the Perkins Prize for Best Book in Narrative Studies. She is the co-author of A Woman's Guide to Therapy (Prentice Hall, 1979), the co-editor of Signets: Reading H.D. (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), and the editor of Joyce: The Return of the Repressed (Cornell UP, 1992) and Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle (New Directions, 2001).
She has published over sixty-five articles and book chapters on feminist theory and pedagogy, narrative theory, women's poetry, modernism, autobiography, psychoanalysis, globalization and geopolitics, and identity; on writers such as H.D., Freud, Virginia Woolf, Julia Kristeva, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Adrienne Rich, James Joyce, E. M. Forster, Louise Erdrich, Gish Jen, Anna Deavere Smith, Gloria Anzaldua, and Arundhati Roy, Fatima Mernissi, Azar Nafisi, Tayeb Salih, and Leila Aboulela; and films and films such as The Crying Game, Mississippi Masala, Daughters of the Dust, and Borderline. She has guest-edited special issues of Contemporary Literature and Journal of Narrative Technique.
Journals in which her work has appeared include PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Narrative, New Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, Paideuma, Signs, Feminist Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Genders, China Scholarship, New Comparison, Communal/Plural, Literature and Psychology, The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Religion and Literature, Agenda, Sagetrieb, Montemora, Poesis, LIT, Journal of Narrative Technique, College English, Women’s Studies, Iowa Review, South Carolina Review, Lingua Franca, MS. Magazine, Modern Philology, Women’s Review of Books, Mettelweg 36, Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais, and med.Azioni.
She has lectured in Argentina, Britain, Canada, China, Dubai, Hong Kong, Italy, India, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Taiwan. Her work is translated into Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
She is at work on two books, Planetary Modernism and the Modernities of Empire, Nation, and Diaspora and Beyond Melting Pots and Mosaics: Narratives of the “New Migration”.
She has taught some twenty-six courses for English and Women’s Studies and directed thirty-seven dissertations (6 in process), served on over sixty-five dissertation and MFA committees, and directed three honors theses.