Judith W. Page
Professor
Judith W. Page, who joined the
faculty in the fall of 2000, holds a PhD from the University of Chicago,
a MA from the University of New Mexico, a BA from Newcomb College
of Tulane University, and studied for a year at the University of
Birmingham in England.
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.
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, and The Wordsworth Circle. She has published articles on pedagogy in the MLA “Approaches to Teaching” series.
The recipient of several NEH awards, Professor Page has continued her work on Wordsworth and his circle, and has published a chapter entitled “Wordsworth and Domesticity” in the Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth (2003). She was awarded a Skirball Fellowship to spend the Spring 2003 semester in England at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Her current research project is on women and landscape, 1750-1850.
Professor Page teaches general courses in Romanticism and British women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She offers seminars on Wordsworth and his circle, Jane Austen in the context of Romanticism, and Milton and Romantic women writers. 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.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4326
- voice: (352) 392-6650 ext. 293
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <jwp@englishufl.edu>