I received my BA in English cum laude and with departmental honors from Bryn Mawr College, where I researched adaptations of Richardson's Pamela as a D.M.N. Marshall Fellow with Peter M. Briggs. My master's work on eighteenth century women and late-century theatre was done at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York with Kate Davies (course convener) and Jane Moody (dissertation director). My dissertation, "Beginning’s Ends: New Senses of Ending and the Rise of the Novel" was supervised by Devoney Looser and George Justice.

I have presented and published work on editorial practice, women's writing, texts in conversation, theatre, and endings. I also work as the founder and elected President of the Samuel Richardson Society, and maintain close ties to Chawton House Library, where I was a visiting research fellow.

My interest in the long eighteenth century can best be described as exploring the notion of the "conversational" in the creation of literary works, including notions of adaptation, print culture, correspondence, education, identification, and the interaction between performance and prose. My current book project looks into olfactory information in the eighteenth-century novel, and I am in the process of collecting large scale data for a project on eighteenth-century senses of ending in the novel.
 

Emily Clare Friedman
Assistant Professor of English
Auburn University

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