Lesley Ginsberg, Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D. Stanford University; B.A. University of California at BerkeleyResearch Interests
Early American Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, American Women Writers,
American Gothic, American Romanticism, Fictions of American Childhood, The Literatures of the American West, Authorship and Audience in American Literature through 1900, New Historicist Theory and Practice.
Selected Publications
"'The Willing Captive': Narrative Seduction and the Ideology of Love in Hawthorne's A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. American Literature. (June 1993)"The Gothic Horror of Poe's 'The Black Cat,'" in Robert K. Martin and Eric Savoy, eds., American Gothic: New
Interventions in a National Narrative (Iowa City: Iowa UP, 1998).Courses Taught at UCCS
ENGL 338 (Survey of American Literature I), ENGL 339 (Survey of American Literature II)