George Mason University

Tamara Harvey

Assistant Professor

Tamara Harvey's research and teaching interests include early American and women's literature as well as literary theory. She is the author of Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700 (Ashgate, 2008) as well as a number of articles exploring comparative approaches to colonial women across the Americas. In her current book project, she is building on the transamerican and transatlantic implications of her first book, paying attention to women’s use of strategies that are empowering, but frequently in more ignoble ways as they stake claims for authority on their representations of commodity, colonization, and empire. She also co-edited an interdisciplinary collection of essays entitled George Washington's South (UP of Florida, 2004) and is currently co-editing a collection entitled “Confronting Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights.” She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine, in 1998 with emphasis certificates in Feminist Studies and Critical Theory and has previously taught at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Email: tharvey2@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.2769
Office: Robinson Hall A 464

Department Affiliations: Women and Gender Studies

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