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About Frances Ferguson
- For the former president of Vassar College, see Frances D.
- FergussonFrances Ferguson (born 23 August 1947) is a literary and cultural theorist who has taught courses in eighteenth and nineteenth century materials and twentieth century literary theory at a variety of universities, including Johns Hopkins University until July, 2012, where she was Mary Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Arts and Sciences at the university.
- She now teaches in the English department at the University of Chicago, where she is Ann L.
- and Lawrence B.
- Buttenwieser Professor.Ferguson has taught courses on the rise of novelism in the eighteenth century; poetic, novelistic, and essayistic writing in the Romantic period; the rise of educational philosophy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the rise of legal philosophy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; 20th century literary theory; and the poststructuralist critique of the social sciences.
- She was active in Johns Hopkins University's Program for Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
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