Tamara Harvey

Tamara Harvey is the Chair and Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. Her research and teaching focus on early American literature, early modern women’s writing, and feminist theory. She has authored Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700 and co-edited volumes such as George Washington's South and Confronting Global Gender Justice. Harvey holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine, with certificates in Feminist Studies and Critical Theory. Her current work explores transamerican and transatlantic dimensions of women’s strategies for authority in colonial contexts.

Education:

• A.B., Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1988
• M.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1989
• Ph.D., University of California–Irvine, 1998

Her research interests emphasize comparative approaches to colonial women’s writings, feminist functionalism, and the intersection of gender with empire and commodity culture. She has guest-edited a Legacy journal issue on women in early America and contributed to interdisciplinary projects linking historical studies with contemporary gender justice.

Teaching highlights include courses on women warriors, feminist theory, and early American literature. She advises graduate students such as Dareen Abdulmohsen, whose work examines Saudi Arabian working women. Harvey’s office is in Horizon Hall 4153, and she uses she/her/hers pronouns.