Kristina Straub Bio

Professor Straub’s interests are in feminist cultural studies, sexuality studies, and eighteenth-century British cultural studies. Her book, Divided Fictions, was among a handful of feminist reconsiderations of the novelist Frances Burney that helped to change the assessment of that writer during the 1980s. Sexual Suspects, a book about actors and ideologies of sexuality in eighteenth-century Britain, has contributed to the recent growth in feminist cultural studies of the early modern period. She is writing a book on eighteenth-century London servants. This project is helping her think through how labor, gender, and sexuality are integrally related in the practices and ideologies of London domestic service, in particular, and how one might think about the relation between these usually distinct categories in other historical instances. She is grounded in classroom teaching and interactions with students. She has created a cultural studies edition of Burney's first novel, Evelina, for classroom use, as well as contributing to the Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, both of which grew out of her commitment to developing good texts for cultural studies classes. She teaches courses in gender studies, feminist cultural studies, and early modern British literature and culture.

	Kristina Straub, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, and Associate Dean, College of Humanities & Social Sciences
	Professor Straub’s interests are in feminist cultural studies, sexuality studies, and eighteenth-century British cultural studies. Her book, Divided Fictions, was among a handful of feminist reconsiderations of the novelist Frances Burney that helped to change the assessment of that writer during the 1980s. Sexual Suspects, a book about actors and ideologies of sexuality in eighteenth-century Britain, has contributed to the recent growth in feminist cultural studies of the early modern period. She is writing a book on eighteenth-century London servants. This project is helping her think through how labor, gender, and sexuality are integrally related in the practices and ideologies of London domestic service, in particular, and how one might think about the relation between these usually distinct categories in other historical instances. She is grounded in classroom teaching and interactions with students. She has created a cultural studies edition of Burney's first novel, Evelina, for classroom use, as well as contributing to the Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, both of which grew out of her commitment to developing good texts for cultural studies classes. She teaches courses in gender studies, feminist cultural studies, and early modern British literature and culture.