Rate My Professor Stephanie Hershinow

Stephanie Insley Hershinow is an Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, in the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, where she has taught since 2013 and currently serves as Deputy Chair of the English Department. She is also affiliated faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. Hershinow earned her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Form and Formalisms seminar at Rutgers Universitys Center for Cultural Analysis. She has received research fellowships from the Rotary Foundation and the Fulbright Program. Her academic interests center on eighteenth-century British literature, the history and theory of the novel, law and literature, experimental literature, feminist and queer theory, and narrative theory. She participated in the NEH Summer Institute on Postsecularism and the Rise of the Novel at the University of Iowa in 2016 and the Project Narrative Summer Institute on Foundations and Innovations in 2022.

Hershinow is the author of Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), which explores the eighteenth-century novels preoccupation with naïveté and non-developmental adolescent characters. She edited Jane Austens Emma (2022) and Sense and Sensibility (2024) for W.W. Nortons Norton Library series and is completing a book on Jane Austen and narrative theory. Her peer-reviewed articles include The Incest Plot: Marriage, Closure, and the Novels Endogamy (The Eighteenth Century, 2020), Clarissas Conjectural History: The Novel and the Novice (2015), When Experience Matters: Tom Jones and Virtue Rewarded (2014), and Clarissa, by the Numbers: Novel Experience and the Aesthetics of Quantification (2023), published in journals such as Novel, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Romantic Circles. She co-edits Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries and chairs the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture. Her honors include the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Feliks Gross Award from Baruch College, as well as the Transformative Learning in the Humanities Mellon Fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center for 2022-23. Hershinows public writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, and the Washington Post.