Rate My Professor Stephanie Hershinow

Hershinow is the author of Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), which explores the eighteenth-century novels preoccupation with naïveté and non-developmental adolescent characters. She edited Jane Austens Emma (2022) and Sense and Sensibility (2024) for W.W. Nortons Norton Library series and is completing a book on Jane Austen and narrative theory. Her peer-reviewed articles include The Incest Plot: Marriage, Closure, and the Novels Endogamy (The Eighteenth Century, 2020), Clarissas Conjectural History: The Novel and the Novice (2015), When Experience Matters: Tom Jones and Virtue Rewarded (2014), and Clarissa, by the Numbers: Novel Experience and the Aesthetics of Quantification (2023), published in journals such as Novel, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Romantic Circles. She co-edits Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries and chairs the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture. Her honors include the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Feliks Gross Award from Baruch College, as well as the Transformative Learning in the Humanities Mellon Fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center for 2022-23. Hershinows public writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, and the Washington Post.