Margaret Higonnet

Professor Emeritus

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Margaret Randolph Higonnet

Professor Emeritus, Program of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies

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Education

Yale University, Ph.D., 1970

Bryn Mawr College, A.B., 1963

Areas of Expertise

Realism

Literature of World War I

Children’s Literature

Literature of Suicide

Feminist Theory in Comparative Literature

Jean Paul Richter

Thomas Hardy

Bio

Professor Margaret R. Higonnet is Professor Emerita at the University of Connecticut. She chaired the Program on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies in 1976-79 and 1999-2000 and taught in the English Department 1970-2016. She also taught at George Washington University, the University of Munich, and Santiago de Compostela.

In addition to her degrees in Comparative Literature at Yale University and German at Bryn Mawr College, she studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, and University College, London.

Her publications address a range of topics from gender and children’s literature to writing trauma in World War I. Her recent research has addressed the interface of comparative literature and world literature, the institutional history of children’s literature and the comparative study of realism.

Prof. Higonnet has been President of the American Conference on Romanticism, the American Comparative Literature Association, the Fédération Internationale de Langues et Littératures Modernes, the ICLA publications committee for Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, and the ICLA Committee on Gender Studies, which she founded. She has also been active in the Modern Language Association and has served as a local affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Email margaret.higonnet@uconn.edu

Phone +1 617 547 1219