Rate My Professor Jocelyn Harris

Her research focuses on eighteenth-century literature and women's literature, particularly the works of Jane Austen and Samuel Richardson. Key publications include Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen (Bucknell University Press, 2017), A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion (University of Delaware Press, 2007), Jane Austen's Art of Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Samuel Richardson (Cambridge University Press, 1987), and her edition of The History of Sir Charles Grandison (Otago University Printery, 2001). Recent contributions feature the chapter 'What Jane Saw in Henrietta Street' in Art and Artifact in Austen (University of Delaware Press, 2020) and reviews in Modern Philology (2020) and Times Higher Education (2018). She has presented public seminars such as 'The Many Faces of Captain Wentworth and the Making of Persuasion' at the University of Otago in 2017. In 2009, she was appointed Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) for services to education. A festschrift titled New Windows on a Woman's World: Essays for Jocelyn Harris appeared in 2005.