Natasha Hurley
Assistant Professor
MA Western, PhD Rutgers
Natasha Hurley specializes in American Literature (colonialism to modernism), Children's Literature, and Sexuality Studies. She is the co-editor (with Steven Bruhm) of Curiouser: on the Queerness of Children (2004). Recent articles include: "Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature," The Blackwell Companion to Henry James (Blackwell Press, forthcoming 2007); "Lyric Pronouncements, the Cachet of the Offended Reader, and the Limits of 'The Public Good'" (ESC, 2003); and "Soliloquy 'Lately Spoken at the African Theatre': Race and the Public Sphere in New York City, 1821" (American Literature, 2001). The latter was winner of the Foerster Prize for best essay in American Literature. Her dissertation is entitled "Getting Around: Literary Circulation, Queer Worlds and Sexual Types in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century American Literature."