Faculty Profile

		Audrey Bilger, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Literature & Faculty Director of the Writing Center E-mail: audrey.bilger@claremontmckenna.edu Phone: (909) 607-2765 Campus Address: Roberts South 219 Departments: Literature

Educational Background

B.A., Oklahoma State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Teaching Interests

• 18th & 19th Century British Literature; Women's Studies; History of the Novel; Comedy & Comic Theory

Research Interests

• 18th-Century Humor & Satire; Early Women Writers

Selected Professional Activities

• Memberships: American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies; Modern Language Association; Aphra Behn Society; National Council for Teachers of English

Selected Research and Publications

• Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. Wayne State University Press, 1998. Articles in various Women's Studies journals and the Paris Review; numerous review articles; interviews with writers and musicians for BITCH: FEMINIST RESPONSE TO POPULAR CULTURE and ROCKRGRL.

Selected Awards

• Research Sabbatical, AY 2001-2002; Gould Center Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2001; Roy B. Crocker Award for Merit, 2001; Teaching Resource Center Mini-Grant to Facilitate Reading Group on Feminist and Alternative Pedagogies, 2000-2001