Brenda R. Silver

Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor

Ph.D., Harvard University

206 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755

brenda.silver@dartmouth.edu

My interests include modernist and postmodernist fiction, popular culture/cultural studies, and, most recently, cyberculture.

Courses

Twentieth-Century British Fiction 1900-1945; Virginia Woolf; Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein ("Woolfenstein"); Postmodern Fiction: Boxes, Labyrinths, and Webs; Hypertext Fiction; Gender and Cyberculture.

Selected Publications

• Virginia Woolf Icon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
• "Virginia Woolf://Hypertext." In Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the Tenth-Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, eds. Jessica Berman and Jane Goldman. New York: Pace University Press, 2001: 157-64.
• "Periphrasis, Power, and Rape in A Passage to India." In Jeremy Tambling, ed. E. M Forster. New York: St. Martin's, 1995: 171-94.
• "Mis-fits: The Monstrous Union of Virginia Woolf and Marilyn Monroe." Discourse 16 (1993): 71-108.
• Rape and Representation, edited with Lynn A. Higgins. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
• "Textual Criticism as Feminist Practice: Or, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Part II." In George Bornstein, ed. Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991: 193-222.
• Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.