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Bette London is the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English and Professor of English at the University of Rochester's School of Arts & Sciences. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1983) and an AB from Oberlin College (1974). Her research focuses on authorship studies, Victorian and modernist British literature, feminist theory, and the cultural memory of World War I. She has held significant administrative roles including Chair of the English Department (1996-2003) and Director of Graduate Study (1992-1996).
Her major publications include Posthumous Lives: World War I and the Culture of Memory (2022), Writing Double: Women’s Literary Partnerships (1999), and The Appropriated Voice: Narrative Authority in Conrad, Forster, and Woolf (1990). Current work explores gender dynamics in Nobel Prize literature awards.
- Research Interests: Collaborative authorship, mediumship in literature, WWI memorials, feminist critique of canonical texts
- Grants: $250,000 Rockefeller Foundation grant (1991-1996) for 'Feminism and Visual Culture'
- Awards: Mellon Fellowship (UoR), Dean’s Meritorious Service Award (2005)
Teaching focuses include modernist literature, Nobel Prize narratives, and war studies. She has advised numerous graduate students and served on editorial boards for NOVEL and the Modernist Studies Association.
