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Women and Gender Studies

Women's and Gender Studies Faculty

 Cynthia Huff

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Department Affiliation

English, Professor
Women's Studies, Core Faculty - Professor

Contact Information

College Of Arts & Science
Email @ilstu.edu : cahuff
Phone : (309) 438-7366
Mailing Address : Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761

 

Office Hours in 323H STV

Tuesday:
8:15-9:15
Thursday:
8:15-9:15

Education

  • Ph.D. English, The University of Iowa, 1984
  • M.A. History, The University of Iowa, 1980
  • B.A. with High Honors, English, The University of Oklahoma, 1972

Biography

Cynthia Huff received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in History from the University of Iowa, and a B.A. in English from the University of Oklahoma. She has written on women’s nontraditional literature, women’s childbirth narratives, and feminist theory. She is the author of Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries, which is co-edited, British Women's Diaries: A Descriptive Bibliography of Selected Nineteenth-Century Women's Manuscript Diaries and Women's Life-Writing and Imagined Communities, an edited collection of critical essays. Her research interests include women’s life-writing, women’s 19th and 20th century literature, and feminist theories. A former director of Women's Studies, she is the graduate director in the Department of English.

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