Margaret Higonnet

Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut, Higonnet has taught at the Universities of George Washington, Munich, Timisoara and Santiago de Compostela. Past president of the American Comparative Literature Association and the American Conference on Romanticism, her work ranges across disciplines, from the literature of World War I to suicide, feminist theory, children’s literature, and German romantic theory. 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 (1987). She has also edited Children’s Literature (1985–1991). Higonnet is co-chair of the Gender, Politics, and Society Study Group at CES.