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Department of

English

The Joanne Dempsey Lecture Series

In memory of the late USD Professor of English Joanne Dempsey, this biannual lecture series brings Renaissance scholars to the University of San Diego community.

Dempsey Lecture Series April 8, 2010 Manchester Conference Center 6:00pm

2010 Lecturer Linda Troost

Linda Troost is professor and chair of English at Washington & Jefferson College in western Pennsylvania. She received her degrees from Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania and teaches British literature of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, British drama, editing and desktop publishing, and theory and criticism. She is active in the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Jane Austen Society of North American, and the International Robin Hood Society. For four years sheserved assecretary/treasurer of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. In 2007–08, she held a visiting research fellowship from the Institute of English Studies of the University of London.

She has published many essays and reviews and is founding editor of Eighteenth-Century Women, a hardcover serial from AMS Press. Most notably, she is the editor, along with her husband Sayre Greenfield, of Jane Austen in Hollywood, the first scholarly exploration of the Austen film phenomenon that started in the 1990s. She has lectured on three continents on Jane Austen and on Austen film adaptations.

Linda Troost Photo

Recent Lecturers:

2008 Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University
2005 Richard Strier, University of Chicago
2003 Andrew Hadfield, University of Wales
2001 Joseph Wittreich, The Graduate School, City University of New York
1999 Diana Maddox, The Old Globe Theatre
1997 William Alfred, Harvard University


Joanne Thérèse Dempsey was born in Rockville Centre, New York, on December 26, 1946, and died in San Diego, California, on November 29, 1990. She graduated from Newton College of the Sacred Heart in 1968 and received her PhD in English and American Literature from Harvard University, with a dissertation on Milton’s Paradise Regained. She taught at the University of San Diego from 1980 until her death in 1990.