Felicity A. Nussbaum (born 1944) is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include 18th-century literature and culture, critical theory, gender studies and postcolonial and Anglophone studies. In the past she taught at Syracuse University and Indiana University South Bend.^[1]

She earned B.A., magna cum laude from the Austin College and M.A. and Ph.D. from the Indiana University.^[1]

Books

• 2010: Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater ^[2]
• 2008: (co-ed. with Saree Makdisi) The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West
• 2003: The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century
• 2003: (ed.) The Global Eighteenth Century

  The 21 essays of the book are "contributions to the new field of 'critical global studies' of the long eighteenth century".^[3]

• 2000: “Defects”: Engendering the Modern Body
• 1995: Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives ^[4]
• 1989: The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England
• 1987: (co-ed. with Laura Brown) The New Eighteenth Century: Theory/Politics/English Literature^[5]
• 1984: “The Brink of All We Hate”: English Satires on Women, 1660–1750
• 1976: (ed.) Three Seventeenth-Century Satires

Honors

Her academic honors include:

• 1991: Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation^[6]
• 1989: Co-recipient of the Gottschalk Prize for the best book in its field for 1989 ^[7]
• Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library^[7]
• NEH Fellowship^[7]