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Kirsten Saxton
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Kirsten Saxton
OccupationProfessor of English at Mills College, author.
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of California, Davis and Mills College
Genre18th Century Studies

Kirsten Saxton is a Professor of English at Mills College[1] in Oakland, California where she is also the director of the MA of English.

Career

Saxton writes about 18th century literature and culture, early British women writers, and the history of the novel in English, focusing on intersections between literature, criminality and sexuality in relation to gender.

Recently, Saxton wrote the scholarly introduction to the British Library re-issue of the detective novel The Incredible Crime by Lois Austin-Leigh which had been out of print since 1931.[2]

Saxton's Narratives of Woman and Murder in England was cited as a "compelling and provocative study ... to be welcomed for the light it begins to shed on one of our enduring objects of cultural fascination."[3] (Devereaux, 2010)

In 2000, Saxton co-edited with Rebecca P. Bocchicchio, a volume of essays on the work of Eliza Haywood which was hailed as marking a "pivotal moment in Haywood scholarship" (Merritt, 2001).[4]

Saxton is an editor for ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830,[5] and is currently co-chair of the National Women’s Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Publications

  • Adapting the Eighteenth Century: A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices (with Sharron R. Harrow, University of Rochester Press, 2020)
  • "Introduction". The Incredible Crime. Lois Austin-Leigh. (2017)[6]
  • Narratives of Women and Murder in England (2009 / 2016) [7]
  • The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood: Essays On her Life and Work. Editor. (2000)

Selected awards

Teaching

Selected research fellowships

  • Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England (2015)
  • Mary Ann Kincaid Award for Research in Digital Humanities, Mills College (2015)
  • Huntington Library Summer Research Fellowship (2014)

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Kirsten T. Saxton" (PDF). Mills College. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  2. ^ Flood, Alison (2015-05-29). "Crime novel by relative of Jane Austen back in print after 80 years". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  3. ^ Devereaux, Johanna (2010-09-01). "kirsten t. saxton.Narratives of Woman and Murder in England, 1680-1760: Deadly Plots". The Review of English Studies. 61 (251): 638–639. doi:10.1093/res/hgq046. ISSN 0034-6551.
  4. ^ Merritt, Julliette (October 2001). "The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood: Essays on Her Life and Work (review)". Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 14: 121–124. doi:10.1353/ecf.2001.0019.
  5. ^ "Editorial Board | ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 | English | University of South Florida". scholarcommons.usf.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  6. ^ Lois, Austen-Leigh (July 2017). The incredible crime. Saxton, Kirsten T., 1965- (First U.S. trade paperback ed.). Scottsdale, AZ. ISBN 9781464207464. OCLC 961802592.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ "Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680–1760". Taylor & Francis Group. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  8. ^ "Undergraduate Teaching Prize". The Southeastern American Society For Eighteenth-Century Studies. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  9. ^ "Mills College English Professor Kirsten Saxton Earns Teaching Prize | Mills College". www.mills.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  10. ^ "Sarlo Awards | Berkeley Graduate Division". grad.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
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