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Ruth
Perry, an internationally acclaimed authority on
eighteenth-century English literature and culture, women's
writing, and feminist theory, has lectured all over the
world on these subjects. The author of numerous books and
articles, she has written on such canonical figures as Pope,
Sterne, Richardson, and Austen as well as on contemporary
women writers such as Grace Paley and Mary Gordon. Elected
president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies in 2000, she has also served on the Advisory Board
of the PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language
Association), The Women's Review of Books and Tulsa Studies
in Women's Literature. She is a professor of Literature at
MIT where she founded the Women's Studies program in 1984
and the Boston Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies in
1992. She has been awarded grants by the NEH and the NSF for
projects on the social context of science, and has held the
prestigious Woodrow Wilson fellowship as well as fellowships
from the Bunting Institute, the Guggenheim Foundation, the
American Council of Learned Societies, and the Rockefeller
Foundation at Bellagio. Her books include Women, Letters,
and the Novel; Mothering the Mind: Twelve Studies of Writers
and Their Silent Partners; an edition of George Ballard's
1752 Several Ladies of Great Britain; The Celebrated Mary
Astell; and Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship
in English Culture and Literature 1748-1818. She is
completing a volume of essays on Jane Austen and a modern
edition of Charlotte Lennox's Henrietta (1758). A singer of
ballads, her current research and teaching interests include
the history of collecting, preserving, and performing folk
music --particularly in eighteenth-century England. She is
editing a double issue on "Ballads and Songs in the
Eighteenth Century" for The Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation and has begun work on a biography of Anna
Gordon Brown, an eighteenth-century singer of traditional
ballads.
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