Interests and Information
Feminist Theory
Critical Theory
Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Poetics
Professor of English
PhD Rice University 1979
Hire Date 2005
salvaggi@email.unc.edu
Ruth Salvaggio
Salvaggio works in the areas of Feminist and Critical Theory, 18th-Century Studies, and Poetics. Her authored books include The Sounds of Feminist Theory (SUNY, 1999), Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine (Illinois, 1988), Dryden’s Dualities (Victoria, 1983), and a monograph on Octavia Butler (1985). She co-edited with the Folger Collective on Early Women Writers the anthology Women Critics, 1660-1820 (Indiana, 1995).
After receiving her PhD from Rice University, Salvaggio taught at several academic institutions. She served as Director of Graduate Studies in the interdisciplinary American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico, and as Director of the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. She has also taught at SUNY Binghamton, Virginia Tech, and the University of Oregon, and has served as President of the Women’s Caucus of the Modern Language Association. Her current book project concerns questions of ecology and poetics.