Adela Pinch

Adela Pinch is a specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth century British literature, with an enduring focus on women writers and the role of gender in culture.  She is the author of two books, Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen (Stanford University Press, 1996), and Thinking About Other People in Nineteenth Century British Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2010), as well as numerous articles on eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature and culture.  She is currently completing a third monograph, Victorian Fiction and the Location of Experience.  Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and she is a 2017 recipient of both a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

In Women’s and Gender Studies, Adela Pinch teaches courses on eighteenth and nineteenth century women writers, feminist literary theory, and feminist methodologies in the humanities. Her teaching has been honored with numerous grants and awards, including a University Undergraduate Teaching Award; a John Dewey Award for Undergraduate Teaching from College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; and an English Department Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Field(s) of Study

• English literature
• 1700-1900
• Feminist studies