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HELENA MICHIE

Michie Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of English
Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor in Humanities
Department Chair

Office: Herring Hall 316
Phone: 713-348-2823
Email: michie@rice.edu


 
 

Professor Michie is the author of Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Cambridge UP 2006); The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies (Oxford UP 1987) ; Sororophobia: Differences among Women in Literature and Culture  (Oxford UP 1991); and co-author, with Naomi R. Cahn of Confinements: Fertility and
Infertility in Contemporary United States Culture
(Rutgers UP 1997). She has published articles on feminist theory and on Victorian literature and has been an NEH and a Guggenheim fellow.  She is the co-editor, with Ronald Thomas, of the essay collection
Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century (Rutgers UP 2002). Professor Michie teaches courses in feminist theory, literary theory, and Victorian literature and culture. She also teaches classes and workshops on professional writing.