Lise Shapiro Sanders, associate professor of English literature and cultural studies, received her B.A. in Literature from Hampshire College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago.
Her research and teaching interests include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature, print media and popular culture, film studies, and women’s and gender studies.
She is the author of Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 (Ohio State University Press, 2006) and, with Amy Bingaman and Rebecca Zorach, co-editor of Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis (Routledge, 2002). Recent articles include “‘Equal Laws Based Upon An Equal Standard’: The Garrett Sisters, the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the Sexual Politics of Victorian and Edwardian Feminism Revisited,” in Women’s History Review 24:3 (June 2015), and “The Shopgirl and The ‘It Girl,'” in Godela Weiss-Sussex and Ulrike Zitzlsperger, eds. Tales of Commerce and Imagination: Literary and Cinematic Contributions to the Department Store Debate in the Early 20th Century (New York: Peter Lang, 2015).
She is presently at work on two projects: an edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett’s 1875 novel Janet Doncaster, and a study of sex, class, and modernity in the 1920s, entitled Fashioning the Modern Woman in Britain, 1918-1928.