Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware. She received her BA (summa cum laude) from Queens College, the City University of New York; her MA from the University of Sussex, UK; and a second MA, as well as her PhD, from Harvard University. Before joining the UD faculty in 2002, she taught at the University of Virginia and at Georgetown University. Her teaching interests include women and material culture, women’s representations of war, women’s comedy, and late-Victorian feminism. As well as being author of books such as British Women’s Comic Fiction, 1890-1990; Facing the Late Victorians; and Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young, as well as co-editor of volumes such as Legacies of the Comfort Women of WWII and Michael Field and Their World, she has published more than 130 essays. These have appeared in journals ranging from Victorian Studies to the Journal of Human Rights Practice. Among her recent essays (all published in 2024) are “Netta Syrett’s Afterlife: From London to Hollywood” (in Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies); “Ella Erskine, Elkin Mathews, and the ‘Long Aesthetic Century'” (in Women’s Writing); “Class and Classrooms: Teaching Jane Eyre with Adele Grace and Celine” (in Victorian Review); “Documenting War Crimes Onstage in Kyo Choi’s The Apology” (in Humanities Bulletin); “A Real New Woman: Covert Progression and Character in Henry James’s ‘Paste,’” which was co-written with Jie Hu (The Henry James Review), and the “Afterword: The Future of Egerton Studies” for the edited volume George Egerton: Terra Incognitas (Routledge). She has been curator or co-curator of more than a dozen major exhibitions on gender, visual arts, literature, and print culture at venues that include the Henry B. Plant Museum (Tampa, FL); the National Gallery of Art Library (Washington, DC); Houghton Library, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA); Liverpool Central Library (Liverpool, UK); Bryn Mawr College Library (Bryn Mawr, PA); the Rosenbach Library and Museum (Philadelphia, PA); the Grolier Club (NYC); and the New York Public Library (NYC). She has delivered many invited guest lectures at universities around the world, including Trinity College, Oxford University; Cardiff University; the University of Geneva, Switzerland; Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea; the University of Limerick, Ireland; and Keio University, Japan, as well as at public humanities events such as the Ibsen Festival, Bergen, Norway. She is also a member of the editorial boards of a number of journals, such as Victorian Literature and Culture; Victorian Periodicals Review; Papers on Language and Literature; and Nineteenth-Century Studies, and she serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly monograph series, such as the “Gender and Genre” series (Routledge) and “Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture” (Palgrave Macmillan). In 2015, she was named by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine to its list of the top 25 women in higher education. In spring 2017, she was a recipient of a Korea Foundation fellowship, selected by the Republic of Korea’s Foreign Ministry to represent the United States as a “distinguished academic” and to visit Seoul for the purpose of cultural and educational exchange. She is also the author of more than 100 poems published in anthologies and magazines (both online and print), along with being the Poetry Editor of The Steinbeck Review (published by Pennsylvania State University Press).
