Gordon Hirsch

hirsc002@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

B.A.: , Cornell University
M.A., Ph.D.: , University of California-Berkeley

Specialties

Psychological approaches to literature
The novel
Victorian literature
Literature and economic history

Publications

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Publications

Shame, Pride and Prejudice, Hirsch,Gordon D., Mosaic, 25: 63-78, 1992
Tontine Insurance,Commercial Culture, and Stevenson and Osbourne's The Wrong Box, Hirsch, Gordon D., Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer of Boundaries. Ed. Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 83-94, 2006.
The Travels of RLS as a Young Man: Hirsch, Gordon, Victorian Newsletter, 90:, 1-7, 2001.
Ardor and Shame in Middlemarch , Hirsch, Gordon D., Ed. Joseph Adamson and Hilary Clark, Albany: SUNY Press, Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame and Writing, 83-99, 1998.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde After One Hundred Years, Hirsch, Gordon D. and William Veeder, Editors, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset: Memory, Depression, and Cognitive Science: Louella Hirsch, Hirsch, Gordon, Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature,, 39:, 165-79, 2006.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Hirsch, Gordon D., Ed. Barbara Brothers and Julia Gergits, Detroit: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Travel Writers, 1876-1909, 268-88, 1997.
Frankenstein, Detective Fiction, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Hirsch, Gordon D., Chicago: U of Chicago Press, Jekyll and Hyde After One Hundred Years, 1988.
The Fiction of Lloyd Osbourne: Was this “˜American Gentleman’ RLS’s Literary Heir: Hirsch, Gordon, Journal of Stevenson Studies, 4:, 52-72, 2007.
The Stevenson-Osbourne Collaboration: Ed. Caroline McCracken Flesher, Modern Language Association, Hirsch, Gordon, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, 162-67, 2013.
Locating RLS in Relation to Brander Matthews's and Walter Besant's Theories of Literary Collaboration in the Production of Popular Fiction: Hirsch, Gordon, Journal of Stevenson Studies, 8:, 97-107, 2011.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Director: Honors Program, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. 1989 - 2000
University of Minnesota, Professor 1988 - Present
University of Minnesota, Associate Professor 1976 - 88
Associate Chair: English Department. 2003 - 06
University of Minnesota, Instructor 1970 - 71
University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor 1971 - 76

Awards

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Awards

Horace T. Morse/University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2000 - none
University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2000 - present

Courses

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Courses

EngL 3161: Victorian Literature & Culture
EngL 3007: Shakespeare
EngL 5250: 19th-Century Literature & Culture
EngL 8170: 19th-Century British Studies
EngL 3004: Historical Survey of British Literature
EngL 3020: Studies in Narrative
EngL 3960: Senior Seminar