Teaching Staff by Subject

Dr Pam Hirsch

College Jobs

• Tutor
• Special Supervisor in English (On leave Michaelmas Term 2011)
• Fellow A

Research Interests

19th and 20th century English Literature and Screen Media; History of the Women’s Movement, including women educationists.   I am a biographer and work mainly on women writers, artists and/or political activists.

Books:

·         Barbara Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Rebel (Chatto & Windus, 1998) and paperback version (Pimlico, 1999) [this includes a lot about George Eliot’s friendships with Barbara Bodichon, the leader of the nineteenth- century women’s movement, and how it influenced GE’s writing]

·         Practical Visionaries: Women, Education and Social Progress 1790-1930 co-editor with Mary Hilton (Pearson, 2000)

·         Teacher Training at Cambridge: the Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes (Woburn, 2004) collaboration with Dr. Mark McBeth, John Jay College, City University of New York

·         The Constant Liberal: The Life and Work of Phyllis Bottome  (Quartet, April 2010) [this is the twentieth-century writer who is most famous for her anti-nazi novel, The Mortal Storm (1937)] 

Book chapters:

·         ‘Barbara Bodichon: artist and activist’ in Women in the Victorian Art World ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr (Manchester University Press, 1995).

·         ‘Gender Negotiations in Nineteenth Century Women’s Writing’ in Uses of Autobiography ed. Julia Swindells (Taylor & Francis, Gender Change and Society series, 1995)

·         ’Mary Wollstonecraft: a problematic legacy?’  in Wollstonecraft’s Daughters ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr (Manchester University Press, 1996)

·         ‘Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist Leader and Founder of the First University College for Women’ in Practical Visionaries: Women Education and Social Progress 1790-1930 (Pearson, 2000)  

Essays in academic journals:

·         ‘“Women” and “Jews” in Daniel Deronda’, The George Eliot Review (1994)

·         ‘Charlotte Brontë and George Sand: the Influence of Female Romanticism’ in Bronte Society Transactions, 1996

·         A consideration of the current state of women’s history in The Women’s History Review (Spring, 2000)

·         Ligginitis, Three Georges, Peri-zadeh and Spitting Critics, or ‘”Will the Real Mr Eliot please stand up’ in Critical Survey volume 13. Number 2 2001

 ‘What’s in a name: Competing Claims to the Authority of George Eliot’ the thirty-second George Eliot Memorial Lecture, 2003, published in The George Eliot Review (2004) 

·         ‘”Simon Says”: a response from two nineteenth-century educators’ in History of Education volume 33 Number 5 September 2004

·         ‘Apostle of Freedom’: Alfred Adler and his British Disciples’ in History of Education volume 34 number 5 September 2005  

Newspaper articles:

·         ‘Friendship of two women spat at’ The Independent (4 August 1998)

·         ‘Passions ran high on woman’s journal’, The Independent (2 July 1999)  

Encyclopedia entries

·         Entry on Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon for the New Dictionary of National Biography

·         Entry on Margaret Morris, the avant-garde dancer, for the New Dictionary of National Biography

·         Entry on Anna Mary Howitt, The Pre-Raphaelite painter, for the New Dictionary of National Biography

·         Entry on George Eliot (= survey of the critical field) for the Continuum Encyclopaedia of British Literature (New York & London)

·         Entry on Elizabeth Barrett Browning (= survey of the critical field) for the Continuum Encyclopaedia of British Literature (New York & London)

·         Article on the physicist, Hertha Marks Ayrton for Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encylopedia (Jerusalem)

·         Entry on Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon in the Oxford Reader’s Companion to George Eliot (Oxford, 2000)

·         Entry on Phyllis Bottome in Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing, 1900-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)

On-line

        ‘Twins’ essay for the Wellcome Trust’s Twins Early Development Studies    http:/www.naturesgreatexperiment.com

Forthcoming’ ‘Written on the Body: a Reasonable Exit?’ a chapter in Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture: the Emergent Adult eds. Mary Hilton and Maria Nikolejeva (Ashgate, 2011).