{"id":1486,"date":"2016-03-25T09:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T13:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2016-03-25T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T13:19:56","slug":"sharon-marcus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/2016\/03\/25\/sharon-marcus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Marcus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/files\/2016\/03\/fac_marcus2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1487\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/files\/2016\/03\/fac_marcus2.jpg\" alt=\"fac_marcus2\" width=\"100\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>B.A. Brown University (1986); Ph.D. Johns Hopkins (1995).\u00a0 Sharon Marcus specializes in the literature of nineteenth-century England and France, with an emphasis on the novel; theater and performance; architecture and urbanism; and gender and sexuality.\u00a0 She is the author of <em>Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London<\/em>\u00a0(University of California Press, 1999), which received an honorable mention for the MLA Scaglione Prize for best book in comparative literature, and\u00a0<em>Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England\u00a0<\/em>(Princeton: 2007), which has been translated into Spanish and won the Perkins Prize for best study of narrative, the Albion prize for best book on Britain after 1800, the Alan Bray Memorial award for best book in queer studies, and a Lambda Literary award for best book in LGBT studies.\u00a0 In 2009, with Stephen Best, she edited a special issue of Representations on &#8220;The Way We Read Now.&#8221;\u00a0 On July 1, 2014, Marcus became Dean of Humanities. \u00a0Her priorities as dean of humanities include supporting teaching and research; promoting collaboration across departments, schools, and divisions; and\u00a0developing a strategic plan to make the humanities more digital, more public, and more global.<\/p>\n<p>Recent publications include essays in\u00a0<em>PMLA,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Victorian Studies<\/em>, <em>Social Research<\/em>, <em>Theatre Survey<\/em>, <em>The Blackwell Companion to Comparative Literature<\/em>, and <em>The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature<\/em>. \u00a0She is the editor of a special issue of\u00a0<em>Public Culture\u00a0<\/em>on &#8220;Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era&#8221; (2014) and a founder and Editor in Chief of\u00a0<em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/\">Public Books<\/a><\/u><\/em>, an online review of books, arts, and ideas. \u00a0A fellow of the New York Institute for Humanities, Marcus is also on the advisory boards of the journals\u00a0<em>Nineteenth-Century Literature<\/em>, <em>Public Culture<\/em>, and the <em>Revue d&#8217;histoire moderne et contemparaine. \u00a0<\/em>The recipient of Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and ACLS fellowships, and, at Columbia, a Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award, she is currently writing a book about theatrical celebrity in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A. Brown University (1986); Ph.D. Johns Hopkins (1995).\u00a0 Sharon Marcus specializes in the literature of nineteenth-century England and France, with an emphasis on the novel; theater and performance; architecture and urbanism; and gender and sexuality.\u00a0 She is the author of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/2016\/03\/25\/sharon-marcus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-12-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}