Margaret R. Higonnet

Literary Critic
CES Affiliate

Contact Information
Phone: (860) 486-1623
E-Mail: margaret.higonnet@uconn.edu




Biographical Information

Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut, Higonnet has also taught at George Washington University, the University of Munich, and the University of Timisoara. She has served as president of the American Comparative Literature Association and the American Conference on Romanticism. She has written articles on many topics, including World War I, suicide, feminist theory, children’s literature, and German Romantic theory, and her twelve edited books include Nurses at the Front (2001), Lines of Fire (1999), British Women Poets (1996), Borderwork (1995), The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Hardy (1992), and Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (with J. Jenson, S. Michel, and M. Weitz, 1987). She has also edited Children’s Literature (1985–1991). Higonnet is co-chair of the Gender, Politics, and Society Study Group at CES.