Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar
Paula
R. Backscheider, Philpott-Stevens
Eminent Scholar, specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature,
feminist criticism, and cultural studies.
The author of several books including Daniel Defoe: His Life, Spectacular
Politics, and Reflections on Biography, she has recently completed Eighteenth-Century
Women Poets and their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre, published
by Johns Hopkins University Press. Two
of her books have been selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Book
award. She has published articles in PMLA,
Theatre Journal, ELH, and many other journals. A former president of the American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she has held ACLS, NEH, and Guggenheim
Fellowships and is one of the few American members of the Institute for
Advanced Studies,