Mary Poovey - IMPACTS Feminist Theory Lecture April 30, 2008

Mary Poovey is Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, and Director, Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, at New York University. Her field of interest is Victorian literature and culture. Among her books are: A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (University of Chicago Press, 1998), Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 (University of Chicago Press, 1995), and Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (University of Chicago Press,1989).

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