Dr. Beverly Haviland

Biography

Beverly Haviland is a Senior Lecturer Emerita in American Studies at Brown University, where she has dedicated her academic career since the early 1980s. She obtained her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 1982. Haviland's research encompasses American literature, cultural history, feminist theory, trauma studies, and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of several pivotal works, including 'Literary Legacy Child Sexual Abuse: Psychoanalytic Readings American Tradition' published by Routledge in 2023, as well as 'Henry James's Romance: Making Sense Past American Scene' (1997). Her ongoing research involves preparing a critical edition of Henry James's unfinished novel 'Sense Past' for the Complete Fiction series published by Cambridge University Press. Over the years, Haviland has received significant funding for her research and has been a faculty fellow at the Pembroke Center. She has taught various advanced seminars and survey courses focused on American literature and cultural contexts, often intertwining themes of trauma and power dynamics. As a member of professional organizations such as the Modern Language Association and the Henry James Society, her contributions to the field continue to shape academic discourse.

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