Stephanie Harzewski

Stephanie Harzewski is a PhD English candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches British literature since 1660 and American literature since the late nineteenth-century. Her dissertation, “‘Chick Lit’ and the Urban Code Heroine: Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners,” situates this popular fiction phenomenon within the novel of manners tradition to revisit debates surrounding the Anglo-American novel. Prior to entering Penn, she worked in the Manhattan publishing sector and earned a MA in Women’s Studies from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Ms. Harzewski has published on Virginia Woolf, Eliza Haywood, and Adrienne Rich, as well as aspects of American popular culture.