Helen Thompson
Associate Professor of English
University Hall Room 403
Telephone: (847) 491-7187
Fax: (847) 467-1545
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Helen Thompson (Ph.D. Duke; M.A. Johns Hopkins) teaches eighteenth-century British literature and philosophy, feminist theory, and critical theory. Her book, Ingenuous Subjection: Power and Compliance in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), argues that eighteenth-century British domestic novels and social contract theorists represent compliance as an explicitly political practice. She has published articles on Frances Burney, Charlotte Lennox, Eliza Haywood, and John Locke in ELH, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and Eighteenth-Century Studies. She is co-editor of the Fall 2007 issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation on the topic "Empiricism, Substance, Narrative." Her current book project explores subject-object relations in eighteenth-century empirical philosophy, pornography, and the novel.
Publications by Helen Thompson
Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel
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The English Major in Writing Celebrates 30 Years on campus
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Jo Ann Beard, Frank Bidart, and George Saunders were Writers in Residence for the English Major in Writing’s 3rd Annual Spring Writers’ Festival
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Creative Writing students gather at the 3rd Annual Spring Writer’s Festival
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English Department faculty attend one of the talks organized as part of the annual One Book, One Northwestern program
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Writing students Cathy Gao (left) and Alleliah Nuguid (right) meet writer Elizabeth Benedict (center) at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Northwestern writing students Matt Pacult, Cathy Gao, and Alleliah Nuguid meet poet Frank Bidart at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Professors Mary Kinzie and John Keene celebrate 30 Years of creative writing at Northwestern
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Professors Wendy Wall (Avalon Foundation Professor, left) and Reginald Gibbons (Frances Hooper Chair in the Arts and Humanities, right) at their inauguration, with Professor Christopher Herbert (Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, center)
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English Department faculty and students gathering before the Department's Fall Collation
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Professor Rebecca Johnson speaks at the English Department's Fall Collation
Upcoming Event
Elizabeth and Todd Warnock Seminar: Tim Griffin (The Kitchen)
May 23, 2013 • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
