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Cathy N. Davidson

Cathy N. Davidson

Ruth F. DeVarney Distinguished Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies
English
cathy.davidson@duke.edu
Duke Box 90403, Durham, NC 27708-0403
Box 90403, 114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Bay 5, B196, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Why Higher Education Demands a Paradigm Shift

Journal Article Public Culture · 2014 Full text Cite

Why Education Demands a Paradigm Shift

Journal Article Public Culture · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Changing Higher Education to Change the World (Series of 8 Articles)

Other Fast Company · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Strangers on a Train: A Chance Encounter Provides a Lesson in Complicity and the Never- Ending Crisis in the Humanities

Other Academe: Magazine of the American Association of University Professors · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Humanities and Technology in the Information Age

Chapter · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Our digital age: Implications for learning and its (online) institutions

Journal Article E-Learning and Digital Media · August 30, 2012 Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centurie ... Full text Cite

Strangers on a train

Journal Article Academe · September 1, 2011 Cite

Foreword

Chapter · December 1, 2010 Full text Cite

MIT Press

Book · 2009 Cite

Blamed For Change

Journal Article International Journal of Learning and Media · 2009 Cite

Humanities 2.0: Promise, perils, predictions

Journal Article PMLA · December 17, 2008 Full text Cite

The Future of Thinking

Other · 2008 This is a monographic version of the longer Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age that will be published in the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Paper series in February 2009. It will be published on the Web and may have a paper presence as well. ... Cite

The oxford companion to: Women’s writing: In the United States

Other The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States · January 1, 2005 This Companion provides a comprehensive survey of women writers across four centuries of American history. There are biographical entries on poets, novelists, and playwrights, such as Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Kate Chopin, Maya Angelou, Wendy Wasser ... Full text Cite

No! In thunder

Journal Article American Literature · December 1, 2004 Full text Cite

The Futures of Scholarly Publishing

Conference Journal of Scholarly Publishing · April 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Understanding the Economic Burden of Scholarly Publishing

Journal Article Chronicle of Higher Education · October 3, 2003 The article discusses the economic challenges that confront scholarly publishing. The dearth of university presses and the dwindling number of independent bookstores are party to the crisis facing academic publishing. The article proposes a number of ways ... Cite

Carrie’s Sisters: The Popular Prototypes for Dreiser’s Heroine

Journal Article Modern Fiction Studies · 1997 Cite

Critical Fictions

Journal Article PMLA · September 1996 Cite

Guest column - Four views on the place of the personal in scholarship - Critical fictions

Journal Article PMLA-PUBLICATIONS OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA · 1996 Cite

The Question of Accuracy: Or, Why Women’s Studies?

Journal Article The European English Messenger · 1995 Cite

Loose Change: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association

Journal Article American Quarterly · June 1994 Cite

Tatami Room

Chapter · 1994 Cite

Laughing in English

Journal Article Academe · 1993 Full text Cite

Love Letters for My Grandmother

Journal Article The Women’s Review of Books · November 1992 Cite

CALVERT,ALCUIN AND CALVERT,STEPHEN - BROWN,CB

Journal Article RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY · 1991 Cite

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DEAD, SHERMAN, DAGUERRE, HAWTHORNE

Journal Article SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY · 1990 Cite

Reading America

Other Special issue on the history of literacy and the history of books in America, guest edited by C.N. Davidson, American Quarterly · 1988 Cite

Early American Women Writers Series

Other · 1987 Includes: Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson, edited and with an introduction. OUP, 1987. The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster, edited and with an introduction. OUP, 1987. Female Quixoticism by Tabitha Tenney. Preface. OUP, 1992. Kelroy by Rebecca Rush. P ... Cite

The Book in the ’Good Old Days’: A Portrait of the Early American Book Industry

Journal Article (adapted from Chapter Two of Revolution and the Word), Book Research Quarterly · 1987 Cite

Female Authorship and Authority: The Case of Sukey Vickery

Journal Article Early American Literature · 1986 Cite

Education, Literacy, and the Politics of Sentimental Fiction

Journal Article Women’s Studies International Forum (Great Britain) · 1986 Cite

The Reprint Phenomenon

Journal Article (review essay), Women’s Review of Books · 1986 Cite

To Bee or Not to Bee: Ann Rosenberg’s Critique of Levi-Strauss

Journal Article Canadian Literature · 1985 Cite

The Resisting Critic and the Politics of Literary Reception

Journal Article (review essay), American Quarterly · 1985 Cite

Isaac Mitchell’s The Asylum; or, Gothic Castles in the New Republic

Journal Article Prospects: The Annual of American Cultural Studies · 1982 Cite

Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle: The Artist as Escapist and Seer

Journal Article Studies in Canadian Literature · 1981 Cite

The Popular Roots of Major American Novels

Journal Article Kansai American Literature (Japan) · 1980 Cite

Mothers and Daughters in Literature

Other Women’s Studies (special issue) · 1979 Cite

Kept Women in the House of Mirth

Journal Article The Markham Review · 1979 Cite

Courting God and Mammon: The Biographer’s Impasse in Melville’s ’Bartleby the Scrivener’

Journal Article special Melville number of Delta (France) · 1978 Cite

Oedipa as Androgyne in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49

Journal Article Contemporary Literature · 1977 Cite

’Circumsexualocution’ in Henry James’s Daisy Miller

Journal Article Arizona Quarterly · 1977 Cite

Canada’s Women Writers

Other Special issue, Journal of Popular Culture Cite