Helen M. Cooper
Emerita Professor.
PhD Rutgers, 1982. 19thC and Contemporary British
Studies, Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies.
Affiliated with: Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies; Women's
Studies.
Selected Publications:
Books:
- Contemporary Multi-ethnic British Literature (in progress).
- Editor, with critical introduction and notes, Charlotte Bronte's Villette. London and New York: Penguin Classics, 2003.
- Co-editor, with Adrienne Munich and Susan Squier, Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Woman and Artist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Articles:
- "Working into Light," reprinted in Critical Essays on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited by Sandra Donaldson. New York: G.K. Hall. 1999, 112-128.
- "African and Caribbean Texts/White Teachers: the Search for New Academic Life" in Teaching African Literatures in a Global Literary Economy, ed. Tuzyline Allan. Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol.XXV. Nos. 3/4. Fall/Winter 1997, 109-120.
- "'Tracing the Route to England': Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Interventions into English Debates on Race and Slavery," in Shearer West (ed), The Victorians and Race, Leicester: Scholar Press 1996, 194-212.
- "Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta: Voyagers." In Voyages and Explorations: Southern African Writing. Matatu 11, 1994, 71-80.
- "England: The Imagined Community of Aurora Leigh and Mrs. Seacole." Studies in Browning and His Circle. Vol.20, 1993, 123-131.
- "The [Contra]ception of the War Text," co-authored with Adrienne Munich and Susan Squier in Arms and the Woman: War Gender, and Literary Representation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989, 9-24.
