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Helen Oesterheld

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

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.

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.

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

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