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Charlotte
Fiehn

Instructor of Writing and Literature & International Student Advisor 鶹ýӳ
charlotte.fiehn@yu.edu

215 Lexington Avenue, #702

Ph.D., English, University of Texas at Austin, 2021
Ph.D., Classics, City University of New York, expected May 2028
Ph.D., Jewish Studies, 鶹ýӳ, expected May 2028
M.F.A. Fiction Writing, Lindenwood University, expected August 2026
M.A., Classics, City University of New York, expected June 2026
M.A., Jewish Studies, Gratz College, expected December 2025
L.L.B., Law, Open University, expected July 2026
M.A., American History, American Public University, October 2025
M.B.A. Business Concentration, Western Governors University, August 2025
Graduate Certificate, American History, American Public University, February 2023
M.A., English, University of Texas at Austin   2020
B.A. (Honors) English, University of Cambridge 2018

I am originally from the UK. I have lived in the United States for many years. I have two college-aged children and three dogs. In my spare time, I love spending time with my family and going to the theater.

I have broad teaching interests: including 19th and early 20th century literature; 18th century British and American literature; American Jewish literature and 19th century Jewish literature; holocaust literature; Greek and Roman literature, arts, and culture. I also love to teach writing, including creative writing. 

2024/25  Drs. Kenneth Chelst and Fred Zwas Book Grant

 

2024  Periclean Voter Engagement Humanities (PVEH) Fellowship Award

 

2023  OSUN Course Selection: Literature and Social Justice

 

2023  Periclean Voter Engagement Humanities (PVEH) Fellowship Award

 

2022  Outstanding Dissertation, English Department, University of Texas

 

2021/22  Reimagining Professional Development Award at the University of Texas

 

2021/22  Awarded Post-Doctoral Lectureship at the University of Texas

 

2021  Dr. Martin M. Crow Scholarship in Geoffrey Chaucer Studies             

         

2021  Outstanding MA Report, English Department, University of Texas    

 

2019  George Eliot Fellowship Essay Prize, George Eliot Fellowship         

   

2018  Myson College Exhibition, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

 

2017  Florence Staniforth Prize for Creative Writing, Lucy Cavendish College      

 

2017  Christine Jones Memorial Prize for Fiction, Awarded by Sophie Hannah

 

2014/15  HACC Lancaster Dean’s List for Fall and Spring Terms

 

2014/15  HACC Lancaster Academic Achievement Award

 

2014/15  HACC Foundation Joan Gipple Memorial Scholarship      

 

2014/15  HACC Lancaster Campus Annual Scholarship

 

2013/14  HACC Lancaster Dean’s List for Fall and Spring Terms

 

2013/14  HACC Lancaster General Scholarship

 

2013/14  Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation Scholarship     

             

2013/14  HACC Lancaster Adult Career Pathways Award

McFarland’s Companion to George Eliot. McFarland.   Under contract and forthcoming, 2026.

 

The Voyage Out: Annotated Edition. Clemson University Press. Under contract and forthcoming 2026.

 

 

George Eliot and Her Women. Lexington Books, Rowman, and Littlefield. 2024.

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

 

“Washington Irving’s Medieval Renaissance: Chaucer’s Influence on Irving’s Foundational Project.”&Բ;English Studies. 2022.

 

‘“[A]s plain as water's water”: the Symbolic Function of Water in George Eliot’s dzDZ’. The George Eliot Review, 2019, pp. 26-33.

 

‘“[P]assionate, magnificent prose’: Tracing the Brontës in the Friendship and Writings of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield’. Katherine Mansfield Studies, 2019, pp. 132-144.

 

“‘[O]nly a psychological phenomenon’: Situating Tess of the D’Urbervilles in and out of Hardy’s Wessex’. The Thomas Hardy Journal, 15, 1, 2019, pp. 39-52.

 

 “Two Janes: Jane Eyre and the Narrative Problem of Chapter 23.” The Bronte Studies Journal, 41:4, 2016, pp. 312-321

 

“Perception, Performance, and Community Spirit in George Eliot’s “Amos Barton”.” Global Journal of English Language and Literature. 2015.

 

“The Ordinary and the Common in the Writings of Virginia Woolf.”&Բ;The Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies, 2.2. Nov. 2015.

 

“The Dichotomy of Cultural Perspective in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda.” East-West Cultural Passage, Journal of the “C. Peter Magrath” Research Center for Cross-Cultural Studies. Nov. 2015.

 

“Sure I shall never marry like my sisters”: The Measure of Marriage in Shakespeare’s King Lear.”&Բ;Gender Forum, 49, Sept. 2014.

 
Book Chapters

 

“Privileging Toxic Patriarchy: A Critical Reading of George Eliot’s Scenes of Clerical Life.”&Բ;George Eliot’s Unfortunate Men, Forthcoming 2025. 

 

“Misogyny, Objectification, and The Suppression of Female Identity in An Introduction to Sally.”&Բ;Elizabeth von Arnim and Identities. 2025.

 

“George Eliot: Behind the Mask.”&Բ;Still Crazy About George Eliot After 200 Years. Bite-sized Books. 2019.

 

“Social Exile in Nineteenth-Century England.” European Writers in Exile. Lexington Books, Rowman, and Littlefield, 2018, pp. 1-15.

 

“Heart of Darkness and the Problem of Faith.” Critical Insights: Joseph Conrad. Salem Press/Greyhouse Publishing Inc. 2016, pp. 206-222.

 

“The battle of the sexes: D.H. Lawrence and the struggle for modern sexuality in Lady Chatterley’s Lover.”Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. 2016.

 

“Henry James and the Dilemma of Young Americans.” American Writers in Exile. Salem Press/Greyhouse Publishing Inc. 2015, pp. 88-103.

 

“The Heart of a King.” Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield. 2014, pp. 3-18.
 

charlotte.fiehn@yu.edu

215 Lexington Avenue, #702

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