Stephanie M. Hilger is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also holds appointments in French, Gender and Women's Studies, and the European Union Center. Her research focuses on...More
Stephanie M. Hilger is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also holds appointments in French, Gender and Women's Studies, and the European Union Center. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century British, French, and German literature, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches to literature. She is the author of Women Write Back: Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of Literary Culture, 1790-1805 (2009) and Gender and Genre: German Women Rewrite the Enlightenment (2014). She is the editor of New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies (2017) and the co-editor of The Early History of Embodied Cognition (2015) and Intelligible States: Bodies and/as Transitions in the Health Humanities (forthcoming, 2019). She is currently working on a book project, "Liminal Bodies: Hermaphrodites in the Eighteenth Century," for which she was awarded a Faculty Fellowship for Study in a Second Discipline and which investigates the representation of individuals born with ambiguous genitalia in medical case studies.
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New Directions in the Humanities
