Judith W. Page
Professor
Judith W. Page is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research. She has also been the Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. Having joined the English Department in the fall of 2000, she holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, an MA from the University of New Mexico, and a BA from Newcomb College of Tulane University. She also studied for a year at the University of Birmingham in England as an undergraduate.
Before coming to UF, Professor Page taught most recently at Millsaps College, where she received awards for her teaching and served in several administrative positions, including Chair of the English Department, founding coordinator of the Women’s Studies Concentration, and Associate Dean of Arts and Letters.
Professor Page has most recently published a book with Cambridge University Press (co-authored with Elise L. Smith), Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape: England’s Disciples of Flora, 1780-1870 (2011). Her book Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in Romantic Literature and Culture was published by Palgrave in 2004. She is the author of Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women (University of California Press), which was named an outstanding academic book for 1995. She is also the author of numerous articles and reviews in such journals as Philological Quarterly, Criticism, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Modern Philology, SEL, Victorian Literature and Culture, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, The Blake Quarterly, The Wordsworth Circle, and Women’s Writing. She has published articles on pedagogy in the MLA “Approaches to Teaching” series. With a strong interest in eighteenth and nineteenth century women writers, she has recent or forthcoming pieces on Jane Austen, Susanna Blamire, Grace Aguilar, and Dorothy Wordsworth. Her current book project will extend her work on women and gardens into the twentieth century.
Professor Page has received various awards and grants for her research, including several from the NEH. She was awarded a Skirball Fellowship to spend the Spring 2003 semester in England at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. In the spring of 2008, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Chawton House Library in England, where she researched one chapter of her latest book.
Professor Page teaches general courses in Romanticism and British women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She offers graduate seminars on Wordsworth and his circle, Wordsworth and Keats, Jane Austen in the context of Romanticism, Milton and Romantic women writers, and women and gardens in the long nineteenth century. In addition, she has developed special topics courses in conjunction with UF’s Center for Jewish Studies on Romanticism and Judaism and on Jews and Judaism in Victorian Literature and Culture. In the summer of 2011, she lectured on women’s botanical prints and writing as part of the course, “Knowing Nature,” which was organized around the Harn Musuem’s new collection of prints relating to the natural world.
Contact
- office: Ustler Hall 207; Turlington Hall 4326
- voice: (352) 273-0387; (352) 294-2833
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <page7@ufl.edu>