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Copyright 2001
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Professor Emeritus of History
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1968

Other U of M Affiliation:

Women's Studies Program; Program in American Culture
 


Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2122 Lane Hall
Phone: 734-647-0772
E-mail: csmithro@umich.edu
Field(s) of Study:
Women's history, history of sexuality, early America
Biography:
Primary interests: gender and sexuality (history and theories), intersection of race and gender in US, formation of an American national identity, 18th century US cultural and political history, nationalism, colonial and post-colonial theory, origins of American cities, emergence of the US middle class, 18th century US print and popular culture, US as a colonial power, cultural studies.

Secondary interests: Women's history, gender in Jacksonian America, US religious history, 17-19th centuries.

Selected Publications:
"Female World of Love and Ritual," Signs I, #1 (1975).

Disorderly Conduct. Visions of Gender in Victorian America (AA Knopf, 1985).

"Dis-Covering the Subject of the 'Great Constitutional Discussion,' 1786-1789," Journal of American History, v.79, #3 (1991).

"Subject Female, " American Literary History.

"Black Gothic: Problematizing Identities in the new 'American' nation," in Possible Pasts, ed. Robert St. George (Cornell University Press, 1997).

 

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