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Education
Ph.D., English Literature, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD
M.A., English Literature, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD
Propedeuse, a Dutch entrance degree, equivalent to an AA, Dutch Language and Culture, Universiteit Leiden Leiden Netherlands
M.A., Modern Literature and Culture, University of York York UK
B.A., English Literature, College of William and Mary Williamsburg VA
| Semester | Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | ENG | 3015 | Surv English Lit II |
| Fall 2023 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
| Spring 2023 | ENG | 4210 | The Eighteenth-Century Novel |
| Fall 2022 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
| Fall 2021 | ENG | 2800H | Hon Great Works of Lit I |
| Fall 2021 | ENG | 4011 | Literary Theory |
| Spring 2020 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
| Spring 2020 | ENG | 6002H | Honors English II |
| Fall 2019 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
| Fall 2019 | ENG | 6001H | Honors-English I |
| Fall 2019 | ENG | 5001 | Independent Study English II |
| Fall 2019 | ENG | 3850 | Law and Literature |
| Spring 2019 | PSY | 4900H | H: Psy Appr to Contemp Probs |
| Spring 2019 | ENG | 3015 | Surv English Lit II |
| Spring 2019 | IDC | 4050H | Hon Feit Hum Sem I |
| Fall 2018 | ENG | 4230 | Maj Top Rest & XVIII Cent Lit |
| Fall 2018 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
| Spring 2017 | ENG | 6002H | Honors English II |
| Spring 2017 | ENG | 2850 | Great Works of Literature II |
| Fall 2016 | ENG | 6001H | Honors-English I |
| Fall 2016 | ENG | 4210 | The Eighteenth-Century Novel |
| Fall 2015 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
| Fall 2015 | ENG | 3015 | Surv English Lit II |
| Spring 2015 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
| Spring 2015 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
| Fall 2014 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
| Fall 2014 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
| Spring 2014 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
| Spring 2014 | ENG | 2150 | Writing II |
| Fall 2013 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
| Fall 2013 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Books
Hershinow, S. I. (2024). The Imaginist: Jane Austen as Storyteller. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Hershinow, S. (2022). Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. W.W. Norton.
Hershinow, S. (2021). Jane Austen's Emma. W.W. Norton .
Hershinow, S. (2019). Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Novel . (p. ~80,000 words (July 2019)). Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press .
Journal Articles
Hershinow, S. I. (2024). Companionable Utopianism: The Ideal of Equal Marriage in and after Lady Mary Hamilton’s Munster Village (1778) . Eighteenth-Century Fiction,
Hershinow, S. (2023). "Clarissa, by the Numbers: Novel Experience and the Aesthetics of Quantification ". Eighteenth-Century Fiction,
Hershinow, S. (2018). The Best of Intentions . Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 47. 213-216.
Hershinow, S. (2017). The Incest Plot: Marriage, Closure, and the Novel's Endogamy . The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation ,
Hershinow, S. (2017). Romantic Selfhood and the Selfie: Relating to the Novel . Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons, 3,500 words.
Hershinow, S. (2015). Clarissa's Conjectural History: The Novel and the Novice . The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 56(3). 297-319.
Hershinow, S. (2014). When Experience Matters: Tom Jones and Virtue Rewarded . NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 47(3). 363-382.
Book Chapters
Hershinow, S. I. (2024). D.A. Miller's "Little Bit of Ivory". Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century Princeton University Press.
Hershinow, S. (2023). "Defoe and the Novel". Daniel Defoe in Context Cambridge University Press.
Hershinow, S. I. It's Not Personal. Barbara Johnson Still: The Ongoing Work of Feminist Deconstruction Northwestern University Press. In Progress.
Media Contributions
Hershinow, S. I., Powell, M., & Bergevin, K. (2023). "Like today, 18th-century laws about pregnancy aimed to control women" Washington Post, (May 17).
Presentations
Hershinow, S. I. "Persons and Nonpersons". American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. St. Louis, MO
Hershinow, S. (2018, March 31). Counting Clarissas. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Orlando, FL
Reviews
Hershinow, S. (2019,August 1). Review of Failures of Feeling. Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
Hershinow, S. (2018,October 1). Review of MLA Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding. The Scriblerian.
Hershinow, S. (2014,August 25). Lady Parts. ABO Public: An Interactive Forum for Women in the Arts: 1640-1830.
Research Currently in Progess
Hershinow, S.(n.d.). Nothing Personal: Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Remainders of Personhood. In Progress.
In-progress book manuscripts on the intersections of legal personhood and literary character in the British eighteenth century
| Title | Funding Agency Sponsor | Start Date | End Date | Awarded Date | Total Funding | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personhood and the Novel from Defoe to Austen | PSC CUNY 52 | 07/01/2021 | 06/30/2023 | 04/15/2021 | 3500 | Completed |
| Defoe and the Novel | PSC-CUNY 51 | 07/01/2020 | 12/31/2022 | 04/17/2020 | 6000 | Completed |
| Nothing Personal: Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Remaining of Personhood | PSC-CUNY 50 | 07/01/2019 | 12/31/2020 | 04/15/2019 | 6000 | Completed |
| Nothing Personal: Eighteen-Century Literature and the Remainders of Personhood | Eugene Lang Fellowship | 06/01/2019 | 06/30/2020 | 04/08/2019 | 5388 | Completed |
| Clarissa, by the Numbers | PSC-CUNY 49 | 07/01/2018 | 06/30/2019 | 04/15/2018 | 4480 | Completed |
| Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Novel | PSC-CUNY 48 | 07/01/2017 | 06/30/2018 | 04/14/2017 | 6000 | Completed |
| "Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Novel' | PSC-CUNY 47 | 07/01/2016 | 06/30/2017 | 04/15/2016 | 6000 | Completed |
| "'Entrance Into the World': Frances Burney and the Redundancy of Youth" | PSC-CUNY 46 | 07/01/2015 | 06/30/2016 | 04/17/2015 | 4470 | Completed |
| "Clarissa's Conjectural History: The Novel and the Novice" | PSC-CUNY 45 | 07/01/2014 | 06/30/2015 | 04/15/2014 | 4248 | Completed |
| The Imaginist: Jane Austen as Storyteller | PSC CUNY 53 | 07/01/2022 | 12/31/2023 | 05/15/2022 | 12000 | Funded - In Progress |
| Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions | National Endowment for The Humanities | 06/01/2024 | 08/31/2025 | 60000 | Submitted for Review | |
| BRESI: Personal Effects: Legal and Literary Personhood Since the Eighteenth Century | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | 09/01/2022 | 06/30/2023 | 10000 | Submitted for Review |
| Honor / Award | Organization Sponsor | Date Received | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching | Baruch College | 2020-05-15 | |
| Feliks Gross Award | CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences | 2020 | |
| Eugene Lang Faculty Fellowship | Baruch | 2019 | |
| Leonard Hastings Schoff Publication Award | Columbia University Seminars | 2018 | Support for the publication of my monograph, "Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Novel" |
| Provost's Award for Faculty Book Publication | Provost's office, Baruch | 2017 | Support for the completion and publication of my monograph, "Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Novel" ($6000 and course release) |
| Creative Inquiry Day Faculty Mentor Award | Schwartz Communication Center, Baruch College | 2017 | In recognition of mentorship of award-winning student participating in Baruch's Creative Inquiry Day. |
| Summer Seminar in Post-secular Studies and the Rise of the Novel | National Endowment for the Humanities | 2016 | |
| Faculty Fellowship Publication Program | 2014 | ||
| Caroline Donovan Fellowship | Johns Hopkins University | 2006 | Additional funding for exceptional entering graduate students. |
| Fulbright Research Fellowship | US State Department | 2005 | Funded a year of research abroad -- in my case, in The Netherlands. |
| Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship | Rotary International | 2004 | Funded a year of graduate study abroad after college. |
| Gilman Scholarship | US State Department | 2003 | Scholarship to fund undergraduate study abroad. |
College
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weissman Art-a-thon | Co-organizer | Present | |
| Baruch Undergraduate Law Review | Faculty Advisor | Present | |
| Honors Admissions Committee | Attendee, Meeting | Present | |
| Writing Across the Curriculum | Co-coordinator | Present | |
| Brightspace Ambassador | Committee Member | Present | |
| Joint Committee on Research | Attendee, Meeting | Present | |
| College P&B | Committee Member | Present | |
| Search Committee for Associate Director of Schwartz Communication Institute | Committee Member | 11/30/2019 | |
| Schwartz Communication Center Symposium | Facilitator | 10/31/2016 | |
| Academic Standing | Attendee, Meeting | 6/30/2016 | |
| Creative Inquiry Day | Judge | 5/31/2016 |
University
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Exam committee | Committee Member | 8/28/2023 | Present |
| Graduate Admissions | Committee Member | 8/28/2023 | Present |
| Curriculum Committee | Committee Member | 8/28/2023 | Present |
Professional
| Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eighteenth-Century Fiction | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2016 | Present | |||
| MLA Executive Committee for the Late Eighteenth Century Forum | Committee Member | 1/22/2024 | Present | International | ||
| Defoe Society Executive Committee | Committee Member | 8/30/2021 | Present | International | ||
| ASECS Women's Caucus Executive Committee | Committee Member | 8/29/2022 | Present | International | ||
| ASECS DEIA Committee | Committee Member | 8/25/2022 | Present | International | ||
| Columbia Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture | Chairperson | 8/26/2019 | Present | Regional | ||
| Abolition and the Arts conference organizer | Conference-Related | New York | United States | 8/29/2022 | 5/13/2023 | National |
| Society for Novel Studies | Panel Organizer, "Defamiliarizing Heterosexuality" | New York | 5/1/2018 | 5/31/2018 | ||
| "Rape and the Rise of the Novel" at 30 | Program Organizer | New Jersey | United States | 8/1/2016 | 9/29/2017 | |
| American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies | Panel Organizer, "Whither the Subject?" | Pennsylvania | 4/1/2016 | 12/31/2016 | ||
| Panel Organizer and Respondent, "The Chicago School Today," MLA | Illinois | 1/1/2014 | 12/31/2014 |