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Felski received an honors degree in French and German literature from Cambridge University and her Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of German at Monash University in Australia.
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Felski is a prominent scholar in the fields of aesthetics and literary theory, feminist theory, modernity and postmodernity, and cultural studies. Her most recent book, The Limits of Critique (Chicago Uttar Pradesh, 2015), is on the hermeneutics of suspicion as mood and method. Felski is the editor of Rethinking Tragedy (Johns Hopkins, 2008) and co-editor of Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses (Johns Hopkins, 2013).
She has also published articles in numerous essay collections and in such scholarly journals as PMLA, Signs, New Literary History, Modernism/Modernity, Cultural Critique, Theory, Culture and Society, and New Formations.
Before coming to the University of Virginia in 1994, she taught in the Program for English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University in Perth. She served as Chair of the Comparative Literature Program at Virginia from 2004 to 2008.
From 2003–2007 Felski served as United States. editor of Feminist Theory. She has also served on the editorial boards of Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, The International Journal of Cultural Studies, Criticism, and Echo: A Music-Centered Journal.
Her work has been translated into Korean, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Italian, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Turkish.
She has held fellowships at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia, and the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna, and was the recipient of an Australian Research Council Major Grant. In 2000, she was awarded the William Parker Riley Prize for the best essay in PMLA. In 2010, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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She is the author of Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change (Harvard Uttar Pradesh, 1989), The Gender of Modernity (Harvard Uttar Pradesh, 1995), Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (New York Uttar Pradesh, 2000), Literature After Feminism (Chicago Uttar Pradesh, 2003), and Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2008). Literature After Feminism.
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