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Clare Virginia Eby is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, where she began her academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English in 1988, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994, and to Professor in 2002 prior to her retirement. Specializing in Literature, her academic interests encompass twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, the American novel, economics and literature, and American studies. Her research examines topics such as twenty-first-century corporate personhood and Progressive Era marriage reform.

Eby received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1988 with a dissertation titled "Representative Men: Businessmen in American Fiction, 1877-1914," an M.A. in English from the same institution in 1986, and a B.A. in English with honors from Indiana University Bloomington in 1980. Key publications include her monographs Dreiser and Veblen: Saboteurs of the Status Quo (University of Missouri Press, 1998) and Until Choice Do Us Part: Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era (University of Chicago Press, 2014). She edited the Norton Critical Edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (W.W. Norton & Company, 2002; second edition, 2022) and the Dreiser Edition of The Genius (University of Illinois Press, 2008). Eby co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and served as associate editor for The Cambridge History of the American Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Her scholarly articles, published in journals including American Literary History, MELUS, Modern Drama, and African American Review, explore works by authors such as Theodore Dreiser, Thorstein Veblen, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, and Edith Wharton. Eby was awarded numerous research grants from the University of Connecticut Research Foundation between 1989 and 2012, a University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Fellowship for 2009-2010, and Provost’s Fellowships in 1996 and 2003. She received nominations for the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor award in 2004 and the UConn Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1992, as well as the Most Supportive Professor award from the Associated Student Government in 1989.