Associate Professor of English
LCH B344
(310) 243-3939
oesterheld@csudh.edu
Helen Oesterheld received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 2001. She specializes in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature with particular focus on women novelists, literature of sensibility,听gothic fiction, utopian fiction, and representations of听all-woman communities, real and imagined. She enjoys teaching a broad range of literature听courses听and she is an听enthusiastic reader of contemporary novels.听
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Selected Recent Publications:
鈥淣owhere Girl: Sarah Scott鈥檚听Millenium Hall听and Representations of the All-Woman听Community, 1750-1770.鈥 In progress.听
鈥淭he Promise and Problem of All-Woman听Communities, 1660-1850.鈥 In progress.
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Selected Recent Presentations:
"All-Woman Communities, Voluntary Celibacy, and the Incel's Rebuke."听American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual听Conference, Denver, CO, March 2019.
鈥淟everaging Faculty Learning Communities to Support Student Success.鈥 Co-presenter. Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning: Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning, Newport Beach, CA, February 2016.
鈥淗IPs: Taking Student Success to Scale.鈥 Co-presenter. Webinar presentation to the National Association of System Heads (NASH), January 2016鈥.
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Undergraduate Courses Taught:
ENG 303 | English Literature, 1632-1832 |
ENG 305 | Critical Reading of Literature |
ENG 306 | Backgrounds of Western Literature |
ENG 307 | Practice in Literary Criticism |
ENG 308 | Critical Approaches to Children鈥檚 Literature |
ENG 325 | Poetry |
ENG 326 | Prose Fiction |
ENG 327 | Drama |
ENG 335 | Readings in World Literature |
ENG 347 | Literature of Ethnicity and Gender |
ENG 350 | Advanced Composition |
ENG 476 | Individual Authors and Topics: pre-1700 |
ENG 490 | Seminar in Literature |
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Graduate Seminars Taught:
ENG 540 | Fallen Figures 1674-1798 Race, Gender, and the Rise of Empire Milton and His Heirs |
ENG 543 | Gothic Terror / Gothic Horror 听 |