Heather Marcovitch
Biography
Dr. Heather Marcovitch is a specialist in late nineteenth-century British literature, particularly the literature of the1890s, decadence, New Woman feminism, and Jewish literature. She is the author of two books, Oscar Wilde: The Art of the Pose and A Companion to Oscar Wilde’s Writings, and the co-editor of two collections of essays on television studies. She has written numerous essays on Oscar Wilde, women writers George Egerton and Ella D’Arcy, poet Arthur Symons, the literary and art magazine The Yellow Book, and other figures of the 1890s. She is President of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. She is currently co-editing an anthology Anglo-Jewish Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century.
Dr. Marcovitch has supervised many independent studies and honours theses on subjects such as Ray Bradbury and Cold War Fiction, Dr. Who and queer performances, Agatha Christie, queer women’s modernist literature, Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales, feminism and the body, and madness in fantasy literature. She teaches Victorian Horror in her sections of Literary Analysis, Victorian Literature, Children’s Literature, Critical Theory, and the Short Story. She was the founding editor of Agora, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Undergraduate Journal.
Education
- Ph.D. English, University of Florida
- M.A. English, University of Vermont
- B.A. Honours English, Concordia University, Montreal