Elizabeth Cullingford, Chair
PAR 108, Mailcode B5000, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-4991
Elizabeth A Hedrick
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Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1986, Columbia University
Contact
E-mail: eahedrick@mail.utexas.eduPhone: 471-8705
Office: PAR 226
Office Hours: TTH 8:45-9:15a, 11:00a-2:00p
Campus Mail Code: B5000
Interests
Feminist theory since 1970; gender and science; eighteenth-century novel and drama; Samuel Johnson; eighteenth-century lexicography; history of charity and philanthropy.Biography
Dr. Hedrick specializes in Restoration and 18th-century English literature and women's studies. Her teaching interests include 18th-century fiction and drama, 18th-century intellectual history--with a special focus on the history of sympathy and philanthropy--and the works of Samuel Johnson. She has published essays on Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, Hester Piozzi, and Sir Kenelm Digby, and she is now completing a study of the essentialism debate in 20th-century feminist theory, entitled The Discipline Question in Feminism: U. S. Feminist Theory and the Institution of Women's Studies Since 1973. She is married and has two children.
