Beverly Haviland works in American literature and film, cultural history, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author ofThe Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse: Psychoanalytic Readings of an American Tradition (Routledge 2023) and Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Cambridge UP 1997) and essays on various literary and cultural topics, including two that have won prizes: one treats Bret Easton Ellis as a novelist of manners and the other is on the accusation of plagiarism that ended Nella Larsen's brilliant and brief career.

She is preparing the critical edition of Henry James's unfinished novel, The Sense of the Past, which will be one of the thiry-four volumes of the Complete Fiction of Henry James being published by Cambridge University Press.

Beverly Haviland's research interests  American literature and film, cultural history, feminist thoery, and psychoanalytic theory.

She is the author most recently of The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse: Psychoanalytic Readings of an American Tradition (Routledge 2023)

She is also preparing the critical edition of Henry James's unfinished novel, The Sense of the Past, which will be one of the thiry-four volumes of the Complete Fiction of Henry James being published by Cambridge University Press. 

 

2001-2023 Departmental Research Funds, Office of the Vice President for Research, Brown University

2004-2005: ITG Grant, Brown University

1997: National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant ($25,000) for New American Studies at Stony Brook (co-author)

1987-1988: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship ($25,000) for Henry James's Sense of the Present (retitled: Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene )

1985:  American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid

(Memorial Design)"Footprints @ Ground Zero" World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, June 2003. http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/ent/entI=350131.html (1/13/06)

 

2003-2004: Faculty Fellow, Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women, Brown University

1999: University Learning Communities Teaching Fellow, NYS/UUP PDQWL Continuing Faculty Development Grant

1998: The Margaret Church Memorial Prize ($200), Modern Fiction Studies for "Passing from Paranoia to Plagiarism: The Abject Authorship of Nella Larsen"

1997: National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant ($25,000) for New American Studies at Stony Brook (co-author)

1997-1998: Stony Brook Academy of Teacher-Scholars Grant ($10,000 for group project)

1990: Faculty Center Fellowship, Vassar College ($1,000 for "Dilemmas of Person and Property")

1989: The John H. McGinnis Award ($1,000), The Southwest Review for "Minimal Manners, or The Novel of Manners in an Age with Few"

1987-1988: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship ($25,000) for Henry James's Sense of the Present (retitled: Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene )

1985: American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid ($1,500) for research on James manuscripts at Houghton Library, Harvard University

Modern Language Association

The Henry James Society

Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology

Consortium for Psychoanalysis in Higher Education 

Professor Haviland teaches several advanced seminars and survey courses focused on American literature, its cultural context, and feminist and psychoanalytic theory. Some recent courses include"Trauma and the Shame of the Unspeakable: the Holocaust, American Slavery, and Childhood Sexual Abuse;" "Public Memory: Narratives of 9/11," "Women/Writing/Power: American Women's Writing and Feminist Literary Theory", and "Henry James Goes to the Movies" which studies film adaptations of several of James's novels and novellas, and "What Does a Woman Want?": Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Desire."